Serverless website analytics with Lambda@Edge

Serverless website analytics with Lambda@Edge

1. JIMMY DAHLQVIST | 2024-04-17 Serverless website analytics with Lambda@Edge

2. 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

3. 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

4. Episode I: The Problem Awakens

5. 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. 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. Thoughts No client side tracking Page, Time, and Country Can I use CloudFront?

9. CloudFront Integration points

10. 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

11. Decoupled and event-driven Event-driven solution Decouple Ingestion Storage Analytics

12. Ingestion

13. Data-store

14. Analytics

15. Episode III: Revenge of the Gotchas

16. Three problems Solution failed to deploy, cryptic error message There was missing data in Athena Page felt sluggish

17. 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. Needed to solve High Latency Time & Date Viewer type

20. A new hope

21. Episode V: The Live Demo Strikes Back

22. Serverless Handbook https://serverless- handbook.com /serverless-web-statistics

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