How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by dcas » Sat, Nov 09, 2024, 9:52 PM UTC

How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe
shopify.engineering

Re: How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by rgovostes » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 2:22 PM UTC

GitHub made a similar visualization a few years ago and also blogged about it: https://github.blog/engineering/engineering-principles/how-w...

Re: How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by Theodores » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 7:02 PM UTC

Fair play, that is impressive. I am generally underwhelmed by Shopify, seeing them as another vulture capitalist way of leeching money out of small businesses the globe over, but props to this animation. Even the work gone into making the blog post is extremely impressive.

Re: How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by neilv » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 7:13 PM UTC

rgovostes wrote: post #2

GitHub made a similar visualization a few years ago and also blogged about it: https://github.blog/engineering/engineering-principles/how-w...

But Shopify's looks like all-out nuclear exchanges, while GitHub's looks like the souls are being ripped from every living being on Earth by a malevolent invader.

I'd say GitHub's is more apt.

Re: How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by trilobyte » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 7:21 PM UTC

I need more engineering blogs like this. Just seems like a fun project.

Re: How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by bozhark » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 7:35 PM UTC

I want this but for news and events tracking using already published articles

Re: How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

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Re: How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by wiradikusuma » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 7:54 PM UTC

Is there any open source like this?

Re: How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by itsoktocry » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 8:28 PM UTC

Theodores wrote: post #3

Fair play, that is impressive. I am generally underwhelmed by Shopify, seeing them as another vulture capitalist way of leeching money out of small businesses the globe over, but props to this animation. Even the work gone into making the blog post is extremely impressive.

>seeing them as another vulture capitalist way of leeching money out of small businesses the globe over

How so? Nobody forces small businesses to use Shopify, they use it because it's a good product.

Re: How we built the Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023 globe

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Post by heffer » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 8:51 PM UTC

wiradikusuma wrote: post #8

Is there any open source like this?

You can start with this: https://github.com/vasturiano/globe.gl I've built a few visualizations with it. You'd have to extend it a bit to copy exactly what Shopfiy did, but all the basics are there. It's probably also not as optimized as the Shopify implementation.