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CEO's Hobby Project Tracks Global Conflicts in Real-Time
5 Mar
Summary
- An engineer built a real-time geopolitical tracking dashboard.
- The tool aggregates data from over 100 simultaneous streams.
- It leverages existing infrastructure principles from music streaming.
Elie Habib, the CEO of Middle Eastern music streaming giant Anghami, unexpectedly found viral success with a personal project. Developed as an open-source dashboard named World Monitor, the tool provides real-time tracking of global geopolitical events and conflicts.
Habib, an engineer by training, created World Monitor to navigate increasingly complex and colliding international news. He aimed to visualize the connections between events, a capability lacking in traditional news aggregators and expensive commercial OSINT tools.
The platform ingests more than 100 data streams, processing information such as conflict escalation scores, military aircraft and ship movements, nuclear installations, and internet outages. This data is normalized, geolocated, and displayed on an interactive globe.
Inspiration for World Monitor's architecture came from Habib's experience building large-scale data systems for Anghami and OSN+. The principles of handling massive streaming data volumes were adapted for this new geopolitical monitoring application, demonstrating the transferability of engineering expertise across different domains.
