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Re: Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch

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Nonono, no server: "[..] write serverless code which runs in the fabric of the Internet itself" - https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-with-workers-kv/

The question is: is the fabric of the Internet breathable ?

Nope, skin tight latex. It shows off the parts you don't want to see!

Re: Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch

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Interesting and nicely presented!

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/B testing severless framework however with similar (but simpler) architecture[1]

[0] https://blog.gingerlime.com/2016/a-scalable-analytics-backen...

[1] https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel

Re: Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch

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"serverless" is really the misnomer of the year.

Someone posts this on every article called serverless, but what is the purpose? Everyone used to say the same thing about cloud computing.

It’s just a distraction from someone sharing free and functional code with the community.

Re: Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch

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"serverless" is really the misnomer of the year.

Someone posts this on every article called serverless, but what is the purpose? Everyone used to say the same thing about cloud computing. It’s just a distraction from someone sharing free and functional code with the community.

I hope this one won't stick. I never call it serverless because it doesn't make any sense to me (I call it "shared hosting", the term everyone already knows). Then, by pointing it out to those who do, maybe they realize that they're repeating marketing nonsense.

Cloud I gave up on quite early. It's a nonsense word but not an incorrect one: sure, it's not literally water vapor, but it's not like you're saying "yourcomputer" when the definition is "someone else's computer". Cloud is a new word for something that didn't really have a word. "Server" comes close, but in "cloud" there is the additional implication that it's not yours (making quite a difference in many cases, so I guess it warrants having another word). Serverless... that's just shared hosting.

Re: Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch

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post #47
post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone posts this on every article called serverless, but what is the purpose? Everyone used to say the same thing about cloud computing. It’s just a distraction from someone sharing free and functional code with the community.

I hope this one won't stick. I never call it serverless because it doesn't make any sense to me (I call it "shared hosting", the term everyone already knows). Then, by pointing it out to those who do, maybe they realize that they're repeating marketing nonsense. Cloud I gave up on quite early. It's a nonsense word but not an incorrect one: sure, it's not literally water vapor, but it's not like you're saying "yourcom…

I also hate it and use the term "managed service". It conveys more exactly 2hats happening. It's not serverless, the server and a plethora of services are being managed for us.

Re: Show HN: Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch

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> google analytics is not the same as analyzing server logs This is what most people don’t get with ga. Google Analytics does the heavy lift by removing incoherent , corrupted or malicious data insertion. Let’s say I use Puppeteer i can scrap this page a million time with completely wrong headers like « Netscape 8.1 ». GA purify this type of malicious attempts , it will probably look my IP Adress and figure out that…

> Google Analytics does the heavy lift by removing incoherent , corrupted or malicious data insertion. > Let’s say I use Puppeteer i can scrap this page a million time with completely wrong headers like « Netscape 8.1 ». GA purify this type of malicious attempts , it will probably look my IP Adress and figure out that it’s actually coming from only one IP and « Netscape » is too rare to be considered as an actual bro…

Great comment. I didn't know the exclude bots toggled used an iab list.. thats excellent information for me to know. Thanks!
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