alexdean

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by alexdean 5y ago
Very cool. Snowplow CEO here - if you need any help on integrating with Snowplow just ask in our forums: https://discourse.snowplowanalytics.com/
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by alexdean 5y ago
Snowplow CEO here. We haven't used Jitsu before but are very familiar with Segment. It looks like Jitsu sits in the Segment product family, along with Rudderstack: basically a Customer Data Platform bundle of simple JSON event tracking
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Black Swans and Pink Flamingos: Five Principles for Force Design(warontherocks.com)
4 points by alexdean 5y ago|0 comments
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by alexdean 5y ago
Back in the early years of Snowplow, we adopted a similar approach for our support of 3rd party webhooks[1] as an event stream source supported natively by Snowplow ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ). (The importan
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by alexdean 5y ago
I just wanted to jump in and say the same thing. I had the hardback of the Cuckoo's Egg as a teenager in the 90s. Huge inspiration to me and I have worked in and around tech ever since. Thank you.
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by alexdean 5y ago
He may think he doesn't have an 'HR department', but whoever holds the pen on his holiday policy, equipment policy, training & development policy, maternity & family friendly rights policy, expenses policy - well, the
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How to Build a Community: Starting with “Why?”(clrcrl.com)
100 points by alexdean 6y ago|33 comments
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by alexdean 6y ago
Hey dylz - not yet. Historically Snowplow has been engineered in a way that is idiomatic to each host cloud - in other words, it runs using the AWS / GCP services that a data platform team would use if they were building a behavioral d
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Show HN: Try Snowplow(snowplowanalytics.com)
6 points by alexdean 6y ago|3 comments
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by alexdean 6y ago
Snowplow has had a strong following around HNers ever since we launched back in 2012. The truth is though that Snowplow open-source is still a complex project to stand up, and a lot of technology teams still aren't aware of the power o
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by alexdean 6y ago
Agree, building this in 2021 is not a good use of data engineering time. As well as the SaaS packages like Amplitude and Mixpanel, you also have great open-source tools and platforms for mobile and product analytics like PostHog ( https:&#x
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by alexdean 6y ago
I chortled when I saw the health warning against railway-oriented programming. Reading that post deeply influenced (and continues to influence) the architecture of Snowplow ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ) and I
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by alexdean 6y ago
It's not that simple, for example Waymo has external investors alongside Alphabet, https://blog.waymo.com/2020/03/waymo-raises-first-external-i...
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Show HN: The Snowplow Data Maturity Model(snowplowanalytics.com)
1 points by alexdean 7y ago|0 comments
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by alexdean 9y ago
Do any of these companies offer webhooks, or are they all oriented at human users reading emails?
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Moving a team from Scala to Golang(jimplush.com)
39 points by alexdean 11y ago|11 comments
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by alexdean 12y ago
I'm not sure that's true of all the client libraries - I'm pretty sure that the Java library is used heavily internally within Amazon to leverage AWS services. Just look at the release history: https://github.com&#
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by alexdean 14y ago
This is a cool idea for a project! The closest equivalent I'm aware of is Qubit OpenTag ( https://github.com/QubitProducts/OpenTag ). I'm interested in adding SnowPlow support to this ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ) - our tracking