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alexatkeplar
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About alexatkeplar
@alexcrdean https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow
Author of Event Streams in Action (Manning Publications), http://manning.com/dean/
My email is alex at my company domain.
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Comment #16617709
The event producer in this case is one of our Snowplow trackers ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker ) - and these tracking SDKs do indeed attach a UUID as a u…
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Comment #16407143
Yes, Snowplow uses JSON Schema extensively for event definition and validation ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/ ).
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Comment #16001684
With Kinesis, you would just use the Kinesis Client Library ( https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client-python ) which would automatically handle committing the offsets to D…
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Comment #15961108
Great write-up! I tried something similar for modelling out the Snowplow release dependency chain ( https://github.com/snowplow/ ) - I gave up and started looking at SaaS alternati…
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Comment #15933160
As far as I know, Snowplow is one of the largest active users of JSON Schema, and we maintain one of the larger repositories of JSON Schemas on the internet, https://github.com/sno…
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Comment #15851377
Thanks for the mention! We are working on our port of Snowplow to run cloud natively on GCP currently - you can see our RFC here: https://discourse.snowplowanalytics.com/t/porting-…
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Comment #15848433
We've been doing a lot of thinking about how to support GDPR at Snowplow (Kafka and Kinesis but plenty of other logs and stores) - for our first phase we're just going to support i…
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Comment #15676266
Inspired by Valve, here's the $15 solution we use: https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Adjustable-Universal-Computer-H...
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Comment #15658039
Paul are you based in London? I've been thinking about dusting off my Unified Log London meetup ( https://www.meetup.com/unified-log-london/ ) and it sounds like you would have a t…
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Comment #15420514
Do any of these companies offer webhooks, or are they all oriented at human users reading emails?
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Comment #15391364
Apologies - the winternship will be for 6-8 weeks, not 8-12.
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Comment #15388728
Snowplow Analytics | Open-Source Engineer | Remote, INTERN. Snowplow Analytics is looking for 1-2 open source software interns this Winter (November through March), for a 8-12 week…
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Comment #14837098
Until recently we used them at Snowplow for orchestrating data processing pipelines, per this blog post: https://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2015/10/13/orchestrating-... We graduall…
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Comment #14691790
Snowplow is hiring in London, Berlin and remote. Front-end engineering, data engineering, systems, marketing and product management. https://snowplowanalytics.com/company/careers/ …