Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch

"serverless" is really the misnomer of the year.

Interesting and nicely presented!<p>I built a prototype of something very similar, but using Google BigQuery to store and extract data[0] but never took it beyond the concept phase. I’m still using and actively maintain an open source lambda-based A&#x2F;B testing severless framework however with similar (but simpler) architecture[1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gingerlime.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;a-scalable-analytics-backend-with-google-bigquery-aws-lambda-and-kinesis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gingerlime.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;a-scalable-analytics-backen...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Alephbet&#x2F;gimel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Alephbet&#x2F;gimel</a>

The blog post about it is probably a better link for HN: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statsbot.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-open-source-google-analytics-from-scratch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statsbot.co&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-open-source-google-analyti...</a>

I mean as a POC its not bad, but google analytics is not the same as analyzing server logs (contrary to what most people would suggest). Most of the value of ga comes from session and user level metrics, which are 1000x more difficult to implement than showing pageviews. Unless you are planning on building a device graph that rivals google, you can&#x27;t clone ga.

Build serverless app to track web stats. Get it featured on Hacker News and use the flood of traffic to demo what was done. Very meta. Nice job.

I&#x27;d be curious to see a cost estimate for some traffic level. I wonder if there&#x27;s a way to put the pixel in s3 and process the access logs more cheaply.

We should really stop using the word &quot;serverless&quot;.<p>I would rather call them instead &quot;zero config servers&quot;.

I think you can use API Gateway as a proxy for Kinesis, removing the need for Lambda.

This sort of thing works until you have one person run a security scan on your site, corrupting your user agents and event types.

Side note: If you want to build your own mid-size event analytics data pipeline, then I recommend looking at snowplow: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snowplow&#x2F;snowplow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snowplow&#x2F;snowplow</a>

Interesting. I once built a ga clone using appengine, cloud dataflow, and big query. I guess that would count as serverless? Benchmarked it against the official dumps to big quey too and it was pretty spot on for every metric we could lookup!

Endless loading... I think there&#x27;s a bug

Genuine question. What does this do that just inserting vanilla GA code in the page doesn&#x27;t? Trying to understand the &quot;why&quot;.

is PHP serverless :thinking:

Please explain what is cube.js doing in this? I mean, what exactly cubejs does.