May Hack Day Highlight: IP Geolocation Map

PagerDuty's May Hack Day featured impressive projects, notably Ken Rose's IP geolocation map app, which visually displays customers' server locations on a map using their IP addresses. By leveraging freegeoip.net, Ken translated IP addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates, creating a rough global distribution of customer servers, akin to a heat map. This tool revealed an unexpectedly high number of European customers, prompting considerations for hosting messaging servers in Europe to reduce latency and improve notification speeds. Additionally, a noteworthy non-programming project involved Arup Chakrabarti and Evan Gilman rearchitecting a company refrigerator to improve access, humorously projected to save 30 minutes weekly in efficiency.