Hey! I'm Dumky, analytics engineer.
I've spent the first half of my working life in web analytics turning Google Tag Manager (GTM) inside out.
Nowadays I spend most of my time dusting off old data models
and scrubbing ingestion pipelines clean in distributed data platforms.
edge-analytics
Analytics on the edge: server-side request tracking and cookie setting using Cloudflare Workers
Server-side tracking is all the rage these days, but let me tell you about the uber-coolest kid on the blockchain: edge analytics. I'm kidding, there's no such thing as edge analytics (except maybe for IoT devices), but there is the possibility to intercept requests on the 'edge' of the network. Using Cloudflare Workers, you can send data to Google Analytics for all kinds of scenarios, even for users visiting pages THAT DON'T EVEN EXIST!
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