They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe
They even had a post about it, too: https://stripe.com/blog/globe
Still, given that the "form" is well established, it is always interesting to me at least to see how they chose to represent the data. When Blekko was running Bryn Dole had done a visualization based on this theme were query requests were highlighted as streams from their point of origin (more queries, taller stream as I recall).
FWIW I'm currently running a Twitter poll to see whose globe people like better. 8 hours in the votes are running 60% Github, 40% Stripe:
I'm also not forgetting Microsoft's checkered history with open source, or their current deals with government agencies like ICE and the DoD.
* I'm not saying they didn't build it themselves. For companies like Microsoft/GitHub, the design is the hard part and paying engineers is easy.
I also don’t think the ICE and DoD deals are relevant here at all (or to any of Microsofts’s other products)
Combine these two Wargames movie posters:
Globe: https://www.traileraddict.com/wargames/poster/1
Tracking: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/216876538281839025/
But sure.. it's all a MS conspiracy to steal credit.