Red Hat sponsored this post. Hackathons to build software for the on-going viral outbreak kicked off as early as March 22, with Hack-the-Crisis — which brokethecompetitionsdownbycountry.
But building out their mobile application and server architecture was only half the battle; the other half required Red Hat OpenShift.
FeverMap was a privacy-aware application designed to help track a user’s temperature and to aggregate that data to help track the transmission of COVID-19.
While FeverMap is no longer in development (it was closed in July), it was a testament to how quickly global-scale applications can be designed, deployed and modified.