[LRUG] User activity tracking

[David Salgado]

You might find some of John Nunemaker's articles useful, starting with this one;

    http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2011/06/28/counters-everywhere/

IMO, the most important thing to do, when you're designing a system
like this, is to make sure you have a simple receiver for the data you
are going to be logging, which is as fast as it can possibly be, and
does nothing except record the data you're going to be
storing/processing - no computation, no logic, no db lookups - just
store it, acknowledge it and wait for the next chunk.

Everything else happens out of band, so that you minimise the risk of
delaying user interactions by logging them.

Good luck

David


On 25 January 2012 12:34, Adam Carlile <adam at benchmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> Hola El Rug
>
> I've been tasked with creating a user activity tracking engine, in order to
> build more complete profiles on our users, their preferences and common
> activities.
>
> But I'm not really sure in which direction to go, I'm pretty sure that it's
> got to be a separate app, with a fast write database, something like MongoDB
> perhaps. Along with an exposed REST API to post and retrieve data.
>
> I also want the tracking engine to send calls to various other external
> services, such as the Facebook Graph API.
>
> It's something I've never tackled before so any advice or articles you would
> recommend would be great!
>
> Thanks
> Adam
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