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Very cool. Snowplow CEO here - if you need any help on integrating with Snowplow just ask in our forums: https://discourse.snowplowanalytics.com/

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 Cust…

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://githu…

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 s…

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 right…

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 platf…

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 lo…

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 platfor…

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…

It's not that simple, for example Waymo has external investors alongside Alphabet, https://blog.waymo.com/2020/03/waymo-raises-first-external-i...

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…

Yes, Snowplow uses JSON Schema extensively for event definition and validation ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/ ).

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…