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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Thanks Guys, that's a real help!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Cheers</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Adam</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div><div><font><font><font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><font color="#7F7F7F"><font size="1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><b>Twitter</b> @frozenproduce</span></font></font></font></div></font></font></font></div></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Joe Corcoran <<a href="mailto:joe@tribesports.com">joe@tribesports.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> London Ruby Users Group <<a href="mailto:chat@lists.lrug.org">chat@lists.lrug.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:04:42 -0800<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> London Ruby Users Group <<a href="mailto:chat@lists.lrug.org">chat@lists.lrug.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [LRUG] User activity tracking<br></div><div><br></div>If you want realtime insight into user behaviour, statsd[1] might work for you. It's what Etsy uses[2] to send tracking data to Graphite[3], a realtime graphing system. Graphite is a bit ugly, so Paperless Post wrote a nice front end for it, named Graphiti[4].<div><br></div><div>I can't vouch for these tools personally – I'd be interested to know if anyone else on the LRUG list has experience of them.<br><div><br></div><div>1. <a href="https://github.com/etsy/statsd">https://github.com/etsy/statsd</a></div><div>2. <a href="http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/">http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/</a></div><div>3. <a href="http://graphite.wikidot.com/">http://graphite.wikidot.com/</a></div><div>4. <a href="http://dev.paperlesspost.com/blog/2011/12/16/introducing-graphiti-an-alternate-frontend-for-graphite/">http://dev.paperlesspost.com/blog/2011/12/16/introducing-graphiti-an-alternate-frontend-for-graphite/</a></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 January 2012 12:34, Adam Carlile <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam@benchmedia.co.uk">adam@benchmedia.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hola El Rug</div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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. </div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I also want the tracking engine to send calls to various other external services, such as the Facebook Graph API.</div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It's something I've never tackled before so any advice or articles you would recommend would be great!</div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks</div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Adam</div><div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial" style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">-</span></font><div><font><font><font><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#7F7F7F"><font size="1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Twitter</b> @frozenproduce</span></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#7f7f7f" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12px"><b><br></b></span></font></div></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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