"Shopify's Engineers Bring Commerce to Life with BFCM Globe"
Shopify's engineering team has built an interactive, real-time visualization called the Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) Live Globe, which showcases purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants worldwide. The team utilized AI to provide city-level sales insights and implemented upgrades to enhance visualizations. Challenges were faced in accurately processing real-time data, but the engineers overcame them. The Live Globe displays sales and orders per minute, trending products, and the total carbon removal Shopify has undertaken to offset shipping emissions.