Brainstorm: Some Thoughts About User Behavior Tracking

👉Remain on high level
👉No specific tools/frameworks included

Why it matters👈

• Understand your users better
• Narrow the gap between how you expect user to use and how user actually use it
• Marketing data analytics

How to do it👇

On client side

• Sync, send and wait
• Async, send and go
• Send in business components
• Send in a separate service
• Keep a local cache for unsent events for resend later
• Local cache size limitation
• API call timeout/failure handling

On server side

• Log collection, centralize all log from all backend servers
• Generate an event based on predefined event data structure on request
• Direct to database
• Publish over message queue

Employ a third-party service

• Direct request
• Integrate SDK
• Shared database/separate database

Data definition☝️

Event

• EventType, what happened
• CreatedAt, when did it happen
• Source, where did it happen
• Payload, who/what was involved

Result

• StatusCode
• StatusMessage

API🌻

create

Create(Event) Result