Analytics at GitHub

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Post by janerik » Mon, Feb 24, 2014, 10:07 PM UTC

Re: Analytics at GitHub

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Post by nickstinemates » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 12:02 AM UTC

> For any business, the process of collecting data, measuring performance, making changes, and reviewing if those changes were successful is really important.

This applies for any sort of goal/process/?, whether programmatic or personal.

Very cool story, I'm looking forward to additional features. We pull a lot of data about Docker from GitHub that could be more readily available. We'd be more than happy to discuss or beta any new features, if you're interested.

Re: Analytics at GitHub

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Post by fuziontech » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 12:10 AM UTC

Fantastic read. Concise and solid decision explanations. Thanks for writing!

Was there any other reason you chose kestrel over alternatives like kafka? Did you test any others, or where you just that satisfied with kestrel?

Re: Analytics at GitHub

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Post by jnunemaker » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 12:20 AM UTC

fuziontech wrote: post #3

Fantastic read. Concise and solid decision explanations. Thanks for writing! Was there any other reason you chose kestrel over alternatives like kafka? Did you test any others, or where you just that satisfied with kestrel?

We chose kestrel mostly just from usage/familiarity. We've been satisfied with it, but are currently researching/testing kafka.

Re: Analytics at GitHub

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Post by nextplaylist » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 2:36 AM UTC

jnunemaker wrote: post #4

fuziontech wrote: post #3

Fantastic read. Concise and solid decision explanations. Thanks for writing! Was there any other reason you chose kestrel over alternatives like kafka? Did you test any others, or where you just that satisfied with kestrel?

We chose kestrel mostly just from usage/familiarity. We've been satisfied with it, but are currently researching/testing kafka.

Are you guys using either of them elsewhere or just for analytics?

Re: Analytics at GitHub

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Post by nicklovescode » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 3:31 AM UTC

As an aside, do you have any info on the visual software used to run the charts? I'm guessing d3 is there somewhere., but maybe not. I've struggled to find a beautiful charting library and yours are beautiful!

Re: Analytics at GitHub

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Post by alexatkeplar » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 4:03 AM UTC

Nice to see lots of parallels to how we have architected things at Snowplow (trackers -> collectors -> enrich -> storage -> analytics)

Re: Analytics at GitHub

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Post by calavera » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 4:24 AM UTC

nicklovescode wrote: post #6

As an aside, do you have any info on the visual software used to run the charts? I'm guessing d3 is there somewhere., but maybe not. I've struggled to find a beautiful charting library and yours are beautiful!

we use d3 for all our charts.

Re: Analytics at GitHub

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Post by nicklovescode » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 5:53 AM UTC

calavera wrote: post #8

nicklovescode wrote: post #6

As an aside, do you have any info on the visual software used to run the charts? I'm guessing d3 is there somewhere., but maybe not. I've struggled to find a beautiful charting library and yours are beautiful!

we use d3 for all our charts.

any chance of you guys open-sourcing them?

Re: Analytics at GitHub

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Post by technoweenie » Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 6:07 AM UTC

nextplaylist wrote: post #5

jnunemaker wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We chose kestrel mostly just from usage/familiarity. We've been satisfied with it, but are currently researching/testing kafka.

Are you guys using either of them elsewhere or just for analytics?

We use Kestrel for our internal hooks delivery system also (based on jnunemaker's suggestion).