Case Abril: Tracking real time user behavior in websites Homes with Ruby, Sinatra, Heroku, Redis

Case Abril: Click counterLuís Cipriani@lfcipriani (twitter, linkedin, github, ...)21o. GURU (2012-01-28) - Sao Paulo/Brazil

motivation • hard news • sites Home must be dynamic • knowing what’s hot helps a lot • other advantages could be obtained

architecture

architecture • triggered with user click on the page

architecture

architecture • servers click.js • generate metrics dashboard

architecture

architecture • clean up referer link list periodically • avoid Redis out of memory

architecture

performance • ~ 650.000 hits/day (only sites home) •17 sites monitored • ~ $823 dolars/month • 15 heroku dynos handling everything

performance• GET /click (on average day)• average: 6.8 ms• std deviation: 0.03 ms

overall performance

performance • GET /dashboard (on average day) • average: 4000 ms • std deviation: 2.4 ms • acceptable by the publishers

process performance • continuous deploy • few requirements = focus • 3 developers working 1 month • 2 weeks = initial implementation using Mongo • 2 weeks = refactoring to Redis and improving dashboard load time

feedback (from emails) “A sua ferramenta é o que há de bom.” Edna Dantas (redatora chefe Contigo) “Parabéns a você e a sua equipe pelo desenvolvimento desta ferramenta. Ela é uma ajuda e tanto no nosso processo de publicação e edição do site.” Edna Dantas “Nós também estamos viciados no click counter. “ Hoshino (Webmaster Veja)

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Case Abril: Tracking real time user behavior in websites Homes with Ruby, Sinatra, Heroku, Redis

by Luis Cipriani on Jan 28, 2012

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