[LRUG] User activity tracking

[Rafael Rebolleda]

I read this article a while ago and found it inspiring:
http://blog.getspool.com/2011/11/29/fast-easy-realtime-metrics-using-redis-bitmaps/

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 13:42, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com> wrote:

> 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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> >
> >
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