Serverless website analytics with Lambda@Edge
- 1. JIMMY DAHLQVIST | 2024-04-17 Serverless website analytics with Lambda@Edge
- 3. @jimmydahlqvist JIMMY DAHLQVIST Serverless enthusiast AWS Ambassador | AWS Community Builder | User Group Leader Founder of serverless-handbook.com Head of AWS @ Sigma Technology Cloud § Hello, I'm
- 4. @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: The Live Demo Strikes Back
- 5. Episode I: The Problem Awakens
- 6. @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
- 7. @jimmydahlqvist • I just want Easy way to understand my readers! • How hard can it be? • Could I track in the backend?
- 8. Episode II: Birth of a Solution
- 9. @jimmydahlqvist Thoughts • No client side tracking • Page, Time, and Country • Can I use CloudFront?
- 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 You can’t combine CloudFront Functions and Lambda@Edge
- 12. @jimmydahlqvist Decoupled and event-driven • Event-driven solution • Decouple • Ingestion • Storage • Analytics
- 13. Ingestion
- 14. Data-store
- 15. Analytics
- 16. Episode III: Revenge of the Gotchas
- 17. @jimmydahlqvist Three problems • Solution failed to deploy, cryptic error message • There was missing data in Athena • Page felt sluggish
- 18. @jimmydahlqvist Gotcha • Lambda@Edge and Functions won’t combine • Lambda@Edge -> EventBridge high latency • Glue and new lines • CloudFront headers in cache policy
- 19. Episode IV: A New Refined Solution
- 20. @jimmydahlqvist Needed to solve • High Latency • Time & Date • Viewer type
- 21. A new hope
- 24. Episode V: The Live Demo Strikes Back