Serverless website analytics with Lambda@Edge
- 1. Serverless website analytics with Lambda@Edge Jimmy Dahlqvist AWS Ambassador Community Builder AWS-UG Scania, Sweden. 2024-08-24
- 2. @jimmydahlqvist JIMMY DAHLQVIST Head of AWS @ Sigma Technology Cloud Founder of serverless-handbook.com AWS Ambassador | AWS Community Builder | User Group Leader § Hello, I'm
- 3. @jimmydahlqvist Todays agenda • Episode I: The Problem Awakens • Episode II: Birth of a Solution • Episode III: Revenge of the Gotchas • Episode IV: A New Refined Solution • Episode V: Summary
- 4. Episode I: The Problem Awakens
- 5. @jimmydahlqvist Website statistics • Google Analytics • Been my tracker for years • Universal Analytics deprecated • Way to advanced • Open Source alternatives • Plausible and Matomo • Fathom Analytics • Not free
- 6. @jimmydahlqvist • I just want Easy way to understand my readers! • How hard can it be? • Could I track in the backend?
- 7. Episode II: Birth of a Solution
- 8. @jimmydahlqvist Thoughts • No client side tracking • Page (post), Time, and Country • Can I integrate into my CloudFront distribution?
- 9. @jimmydahlqvist Decoupled and event-driven • Event-driven solution • Decouple • Ingestion • Storage • Analytics
- 11. @jimmydahlqvist Lambda@Edge vs CloudFront Functions Lambda@Edge • All integration points • Network access • Up to 5 or 30 second duration CloudFront Functions • Viewer Request / Response • No network access • Sub millisecon duration
- 12. Ingestion
- 13. Data-store
- 14. Analytics
- 15. Episode III: Revenge of the Gotchas
- 16. @jimmydahlqvist Three problems • Solution failed to deploy, cryptic error message • There was missing data • Page felt sluggish
- 17. @jimmydahlqvist Gotcha • Lambda@Edge and Functions won’t combine • Lambda@Edge -> EventBridge high latency • Glue and new lines • CloudFront headers in cache policy
- 18. Episode IV: A New Refined Solution
- 19. @jimmydahlqvist Needed to solve • High Latency • Time & Date • Viewer type
- 20. A new hope
- 23. @jimmydahlqvist Cost • Managed Grafana - $9 • S3 - $5 • Glue - $2 • Total - $16
- 25. @jimmydahlqvist • I know what blog post is accessed at what time • I can visualize where in the world my users are locates • I can create dashboards that show the information I need
- 26. Last 30 days
Editor's Notes
- #3: Hi! I'm Jimmy! I have worked with AWS and severless since 2015, almost a decade now, and I have seen all kind of strange things. I’m a true serverless enthusiast, the very first solution I built on AWS was serverless and I have not looked back since. I have built serverless solutions for a variaty of companies, from startups to large enterpices. I'm the founder of serverless-handbook.com where you can find all kind of serverless things that i have built, ranging from workshops to small architecture patterns. And I have my blog on Jimmydqv.com As a day-time job, and yes, I do have a daytime job, I know people have been questioning that. I work as Head of AWS at Sigma Technology Cloud, we are an advanced services partner with AWS and do all kind of fun solutions. If you like to know more about us, visit our booth outside.... I'm AWS Ambassador, AWS Community Builder and one of user Group leader for the Scania user group.
- #5: Introduce the problem… Understand my readers.
- #7: Frustration!! I just want to understand! How hard can it be?
- #8: This got me thinking! Let’s try and build this!
- #11: 4 integration points!
- #16: After created the solution I run into some problems….