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Introducing Snowfinch: open source realtime web analytics
- jackbean 15y agoJust curious: why are you using MongoDB with ActiveRecord and not say MongoMapper or Mongoid?
- jcxplorer 15y agoI like the stability of ActiveRecord. It was also to show that it's very easy to use the Ruby MongoDB driver just for some data. I have thought about changing it in the future to use only MongoDB, but not just yet.
- jrydberg 15y agoI'm trying to figure out why people think real-time data is important. Data needs to be actionable, and I'm not sure real-time page view data is that. What conclusions can be made from that dashboard, except "we have N visitors right now"? And what actions can you take from that data to increase the number of page views?
- jkaljundi 15y agoIf you're running on cloud, one thing is to understand the need of real-time server bandwidth increases/decreases. On the marketing & customer development side, it might help you participate in discussions regarding your site happening elsewhere.
- jrydberg 15y agoSure, but then the data is actionable: the bandwidth goes up, you increase the number of instances in your cloud. Or calls the bank for more money.
- jcxplorer 15y agoAt the moment there isn't much value except for it looking nice. However, once I implement referrers properly, it's good to see where traffic is coming from. When it comes from a discussion you are still not too late to act. Also, having an API call that returns the trending content of the site can be used on the site itself.