How a Hackathon COVID-19 App Was Ported to OpenShift

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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.

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