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---
# ^^^ YAML documents must begin with the document separator "---"
#
#### Example docblock, I like to put a descriptive comment at the top of my 
#### playbooks.
#
# Overview: Playbook to bootstrap a new host for configuration management.
# Applies to: production
# Description: 
#   Ensures that a host is configured for management with Ansible.

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Custom unstructured event and context functionality: draft specification

0. Introduction

This draft specification covers the enrichment and storage processes for:

1. Custom unstructured events
2. Custom untructured context

Custom unstructured events are well-documented as part of the Snowplow Tracker Protocol. Custom unstructured context is less well documented - essentially is looks like this:

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# == Simple Daemon
#
# A simple ruby daemon that you copy and change as needed.
# 
# === How does it work?
#
# All this program does is fork the current process (creates a copy of
# itself) then exits, the fork (child process) then goes on to run your
# daemon code. In this example we are just running a while loop with a

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// Alias. Worth keeping in because it's so verbose. 
var encodeWrapper = window.encodeURIComponent;

// IMPORTANT!!
// ------------------------------------------
// This is how simple it is to build the final URL:
image.src = configCollectorUrl + '?' + request;
// See below for how each piece (configCollectorUrl and request) are built...

/**

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trackItemView and trackPageView improvements

Details

Reference: snowplow/snowplow#113

Idea from: https://github.com/kingo55

See also:

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itemViewTrack

Details

Reference: snowplow/snowplow#113
Idea from: https://github.com/kingo55

Summary

This is a new feature to track views of products on ecommerce sites, or suggested articles on a media site, similar to how Google AdWords tracks ad views in different positions on a page.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
#  fetch_and_combine.py
#

"""
Scans CloudFront logs in an S3 bucket for any that are new. Combines log files
into a single local file per hour. If logs for multiple CloudFront
distributions are present, combines them all.