Shopify live dashboard

We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It&#x27;s always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now.<p>You know, it&#x27;s pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here.<p>This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Shopify&#x2F;status&#x2F;1728040379163771020" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Shopify&#x2F;status&#x2F;1728040379163771020</a> ). Like you might see fireworks when a store has their first ever sale, and there are lots of fun city stats which are part generated by GPT4. On desktop you can also open the nerd menu and play around with the settings and share the link to your creation.

But, but... Rails doesn&#x27;t scale!!!!!

Amazing how concentrated the wealth of the world is.

What is their basis for the &quot;Carbon Removed&quot; stat?

Shopify has been able to scale to this using a Ruby on Rails monolith and a few Go&#x2F;Rust services.<p>Impressive.

This is really cool, and (unlike the Stripe one) doesn&#x27;t crash my browser nor does it lag on my devices.<p>The city facts are a nice addition, but most of the cities I search for don&#x27;t have enough data despite showing up in the suggestions, which is annoying. The customization options are fun to play around with though, and especially airplane mode is a nice touch.

Apart from the actual thing being impressive, I think I’m even more impressed that this runs smoothly on my 2016 iPhone SE.

What library is used to make the frontend globe rendering? Its pretty fast and not laggy on my chrome browser.

Aside from the globe itself, most of the movement in this animation is the frenetic ticking of digits as the &quot;sales per minute&quot;, &quot;unique shoppers&quot;, &quot;orders per minute&quot; and &quot;carbon removed&quot; numbers change. All of these numbers are actually updated only once every 10 seconds, but the animation makes all the digits scramble for 8 out of those 10 seconds for no reason other than to look busy.<p>Don&#x27;t do that.<p>Don&#x27;t distort the information. Don&#x27;t make it harder to read the information. Don&#x27;t waste the user&#x27;s visual attention on things that don&#x27;t matter. Spend it on things that are meaningful.

Wow, these customizations are crazy. Flying in airplane mode makes it look like a war zone.

All I see is all your base belongs to me (Shopify)

The airplanes are doing .001c

I like it, but a comparison to last year&#x27;s Black Friday (at this time of day) is what I would really like to see. But, still, cool.

According to my rough math, they&#x27;ve charged $100M worth of transaction fees at this point

GBP and EUR volumes are pretty similar (just north of 500K atm). I find this interesting. How can one country equal sales of the whole Eurozone? Is that more showing of commerce activity or the popularity of Black Friday in those countries?

This somehow crashed my browser. Cool interface, though. I liked the Stripe one a bit more in terms of actual stats and overall I would&#x27;ve liked to see more stats from both. Maybe they&#x27;ll do reports after.

Some insight on this by one of the devs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T1kkr8VMVqc?si=qq6JvEX2-kBL6jjL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T1kkr8VMVqc?si=qq6JvEX2-kBL6jjL</a>

Love this. Cool to see how the west coast is still mostly asleep :D

The US economy is something else. Look at all that activity!

Love the city facts. Well executed.

Stunning! I wonder how they did the globe animation with real time data.

How do you find shopify shops?

2 fps on my machine

The &#x27;carbon removed&#x27; figure is so extremely cringe