As someone who over the past decade regularly had to sell higher management on investing in infrastructure, I can tell you this will be extremely useful.
Seriously, even if it's just a random visualization of some normal peek traffic, it will go down easier than dozens of actual arguments, slideshows with bullet points or fat reports nobody reads. Show the video, do a bit of handwaving and there's your budget...
For any techie trying to convince their boss they need more servers, this is a very powerful tool. Use with caution.
So I installed the project and ran it with my log files and I'd like to retract my previous claim of it not being useful. You're right, I can definitely see the use here, it puts stuff into perpective quite well.
It's easy to write off shiny visualizations as silly (which is what I did above) but they definitely offer a perpective that you can't get any other way.
As someone who over the past decade regularly had to sell higher management on investing in infrastructure, I can tell you this will be extremely useful.
Seriously, even if it's just a random visualization of some normal peek traffic, it will go down easier than dozens of actual arguments, slideshows with bullet points or fat reports nobody reads. Show the video, do a bit of handwaving and there's your budget...
For any techie trying to convince their boss they need more servers, this is a very powerful tool. Use with caution.