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Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by icelancer »

exolymph wrote: post #65

A couple of people have mentioned that Baremetrics should feel threatened, and that's where my mind went immediately too. I asked Josh Pigford for his reaction, and this is what he said: > We've had beta access to it for a while and have known it was coming. Generally not worried about it at all nor do we view it as any sort of competition in any sense of the word. > It doesn't give access to any new data...it's an S…

I don't see them as competing products or services at all. In fact, it might only increase visibility.

If we used subscriptions in Stripe, we'd use Baremetrics. But we manage subscriptions using third party software, so their metrics/products are unfortunately not a great fit.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by mattbgates »

I'm still waiting for the button that clears your test data but leaves your subscription test plans intact. Guess this feature wouldn't be able to help with that.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by nikki93 »

objclxt wrote: post #73
danudey wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first reaction to seeing an SQL-based API is 'ugh'. SQL is complex and a little cumbersome, and easy to get wrong. My second reaction is 'oh, thank god'. I'm so tired of having APIs where I have to go through the 'get the list of users', 'iterate over the list to create a map', 'get the list of messages', 'iterate over the list of messages and add the username to the data structure', 'oh wait I have to get the cha…

That's one of the problems that GraphQL is intended to solve, specifically you don't want to write your API queries directly in SQL but you also want the flexibility to chain queries together and specify the exact types of data you require.

Wonder what you'd think of a pull + datalog mix, which is what Datomic / Datascript do: https://github.com/Datomic/day-of-datomic/blob/master/tutori... The neat thing about the syntax there is that it's a datastructure which if you write a generic visual editor like https://developers.google.com/blockly/ over that only fits puzzle pieces when they satisfy https://clojure.org/about/spec you could...

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by ucarion »

As usual, another beautiful Stripe product page. Fantastic job! The product looks pretty awesome too.

In case any Stripe-people are lurking here, the scrolling on the example query modals (the ones you get from clicking on e.g. "How many active customers do we have?") is painfully slow -- as though it had only been tested for Mac touchpads, where scrolling quickly is easy.

I'm on Firefox/Ubuntu, using a shitty USB mouse with a scrollwheel.

P.S.: What demonym does Stripe use? "Striper" is a letter away from an embarrassing typo.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by koolba »

logvol wrote: post #80

Is the data freshness a joke? 2 DAYS to get data into the data warehouse? Stitch, Fivetran, Segment, and more can do way better than that without any internal hooks.... :/ > Additional processing time–up to 48 hours–is required to make your account’s transactional data available in Sigma. This means that it does not reflect your account’s most recent data and should be considered a couple days behind. The Sigma inter…

Does that have anything to do with transaction settlement or just pure lag?

I can understand an async mode of updates being partially behind but two days seems excessively laggy without a business reason for it.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by brazzledazzle »

JepZ wrote: post #72

Anybody else has problems reading the examples on that page? When I click on an example the source code for the example is rendered very blurry :-/

Do you have a screenshot? The examples I see aren't even images, they're text that I can select and copy.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by ams6110 »

logvol wrote: post #80

Is the data freshness a joke? 2 DAYS to get data into the data warehouse? Stitch, Fivetran, Segment, and more can do way better than that without any internal hooks.... :/ > Additional processing time–up to 48 hours–is required to make your account’s transactional data available in Sigma. This means that it does not reflect your account’s most recent data and should be considered a couple days behind. The Sigma inter…

For decision making, hopefully you're looking at more than the past two days.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by chevman »

Looks like they are re-building cloud ERP systems, just starting at the payment transaction and working outward.

Compare to Netsuite and other similar platforms.

Re: Stripe Sigma

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Post by 15155 »

chrisacky wrote: post #70

Technically, how would something like this architecturally be structured? Curious how they would sandbox the user data and still provide a SQL like interface. I wrote something for Doctrine last year where I let my users query their own data using DQL. I had to write a TONNE of AST walkers to ensure that they weren't accessing entities they didn't have permissions to. Was a huge issue that I wish I didn't start :D (B…

My guess: they implement a SQL parser and executor on top of whatever infrastructure they have already.

The SQL layer could probably just be an API client to the data they have already.

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