WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Dec 7, 2021

Covid-19 - A crowdsourced map for checking supermarket wait times worldwide

Miki Lombardi

A viral Covid-19 map started on a single Raspberry Pi before scaling to millions of users. Discover the lean Redis architecture that kept peak monthly costs under $25.

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