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Creating a stunning data analytic dashboard using PHP and Flex

Kevin Schroeder

Technology Evangelist

Zend Technologies

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About Kevin

Past: Programming/Sys Admin

Current: Technology Evangelist/Author/Composer

@kpschrade

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Problems

• How do we create a dashboard for an e-commerce application?

• What data is interesting?

• What data do we need now?

• What data can wait?

• Is a database the best choice?

• What are other options?

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Solutions

• Message queues are nice for quick, transient, serialized objects

• Databases are nice for persistent structured data

• Job queues are nice to batch data processing that might overwhelm the dash board

• Use what is best for individual features(but don’t go crazy)

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Data Retrieval

• Delayed traffic reports (1-2 seconds)

• Immediate sales notification

• Delayed product sales (~10 seconds)

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Pieces

• Magento An observer that hooks in with

• each page request (traffic monitoring)

• end of the sale cycle (sale notices and product summary)

• Job Queue Process traffic

• Retrieves data from a message queue and summarizes it into a DB table

Process sales• Retrieves sales data from a message queue and includes it in

a summary DB table

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Pieces (con’t)

• ActiveMQ (using Stomp) Queues: traffic, sale, sale summary

• Flex Traffic View – gets data from a service call

Sale View – gets data from the message queue

Product Sales Summary View – gets data from a service call

• Service Calls Traffic summary – retrieves data DB summary table

Product summary – retrieves data DB summary table

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Traffic Architecture

ApplicationTraffic Logger Queue

Process New Traffic

JobDatabase Service

CallDashboard Application

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Sale Architecture

Application Sale Queue

Dashboard Application

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Sale Summary Architecture

ApplicationSale

Logger Queue

Process New Sale Items Job

Database Service Call

Dashboard Application

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Demo

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