Cloudflare Analytics Engine, Workers + more with Ben Vinegar

Scott and Wes dive into Cloudflare's Analytics Engine and Workers with special guest Ben Vinegar, Syntax's General Manager. Tune in as they explore Clickhouse, data tracking, infrastructure costs, and transitioning from software products to managing a podcast.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:17 Who is Ben Vinegar?
Check out counterscale.dev/
02:21 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
04:00 Cloudflare analytics engine.
09:08 What is clickhouse?
11:01 Can Clickhouse be used for things outside of analytics tracking?
13:46 What kind of events are you able to track?
15:00 How do you assign values to track?
18:40 Data type limitations.
19:55 The troubles with sampling data.
23:57 Sample intervals.
24:24 Pricing for these services.
25:34 How it actually runs.
27:31 Infrastructure costs and pricing models.
30:19 Running production apps in Cloudflare.
31:49 Cloudflare and HonoJS.
32:47 One year with Sentry and Ben's role with Syntax.
39:33 How does it feel going from a software project to a media project?
43:00 How do you sell Syntax to Sentry?
48:37 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs
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[@theDurman]

Crazy, was literally looking into all this today and then saw your video. Now i have options if I don’t wanna roll my own, will try this out!

[@benvinegar]

Oops, didn't do a good job clarifying this out of the gates: Counterscale is a cookieless open source analytics service designed to self-host easily on Cloudflare. It gives you a JavaScript snippet to drop into your web page/app (hosted anywhere), and it records visits, views, etc. It also gives you a dashboard that shows you how many visitors you got, what content they're viewing, which browsers are visiting, etc.
You can see a live demo at counterscale.dev

[@TylerTriesTech]

If you're listeners ever want to learn more about Analytics and Data Engineering let me know! I loved hearing about Cloudflare Analytics engine and I have plenty of experience with these columar databases like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift and why web developers might use these tools

[@gofudgeyourselves9024]

ok

[@syntaxfm]

Ok