MindSpore Developer Sets up a Real-time Virus Outbreak Tracker Website for Shanghai

2022/04/07

MindSpore Developer Sets up a Real-time Virus Outbreak Tracker Website for Shanghai

The MindSpore community has, in the spirit of openness, been pooling the power of developers to improve convenience for everyday people.

As crowds of volunteers from different regions rushing to help Shanghai during this outbreak has attracted wide media attention, the MindSpore community has also responded to the needs of Shanghai.

Meng Fanrong, a developer of the MindSpore community, has developed a tool to help people track real-time information about the virus outbreak in Shanghai, and released the code as open source so that other developers can work together to build the tool.

The Shanghai Epidemic Situation Tracker project

https://www.mindspore.cn/shanghai-covid/

Participate in the development at https://github.com/kevin-meng/2022shanghai-covid.

The developer

Regarding the motivation for starting this project, Meng said:

"At first, I had to quarantine at home due to the Omicron breakout in Shanghai. I had a hard time finding information about the virus outbreak in my neighborhood and across the city. I discovered that there was no app to do this. After seeing many volunteers fight the Omicron outbreak on the front line, I decided to try my best to help everyone in this city. With my experience in location-based services, I developed an initial version of this application. Later, I added information about food and medicine, hoping to make it easier for people to buy food and medicine. I believe that we can overcome the pandemic together and return to normality very quickly."

Agile Infrastructure

Since it was established, the MindSpore community has strived to keep community infrastructure open source. The quick deployment of the Omicron outbreak tracker website is also down to the efforts of our community infrastructure team.

Unlike many enterprise-driven open source projects, the MindSpore community is dedicated solely to building open and stable infrastructure. We use mainstream cloud-native open source projects such as Kubernetes to build an open pipeline (https://build.mindspore.cn), which allows for quick deployment of Streamlit applications in a multi-node cluster running on openEuler. Furthermore, real-time synchronization and automatic build triggering provide the real-time information update feature.

With the first application based on open source infrastructure being used in China's fight against the Omicron outbreak, the MindSpore community infrastructure team will continue to support the people of Shanghai.