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this is definitely a deal breaker. other than server-side, are there any other work arounds? like roll your own domain proxy or something?
Just bundle it in with the rest of JS payload with something like webpack. Individual calls to certain domains (GA, Heap, etc) might still get blocked, but the payload itself will be fine.
I'm a massive fan (and user!) of Segment. I think it could be revolutionary. I do worry a lot about how they tell the world about what they _are_ though, it's an inherently complex and technical product - and often the buyers of this software may not be technical enough to appreciate the sophistication of this product. In my experience Segment is confusing to explain until you actually use it, then you love it.
I keep going back and forth between understanding the value of this product (dashboard for marketing to add integrations w/o dev time; better integration of analytics), to wondering why technical people pay for this. It doesn't seem cheap, and you're throwing a lot of control over latency-sensitive data to a black box. The founder straight-up admits in this article that the problems they're solving are largely simple…
All they need to do is install some dashboard, data processing tools and think of what data they want to correlate with other data and if that correlation has any interesting meaning.
But of course having your company listed at a hot startup site is simply exposure or marketing too. Maybe those companies don't even use it, they just want their logo to be shown every where on the 'hot' parts of the web.
And having listed on your site that 15.000+ companies trust you? Why do you still need to raise money then? Start charging people if your product has value.
Also as a private citizen can i request at Segment if you are storing, processing or handling my private data (provided by parties i did business with) in anyway?
I've been a Segment user, and advocate, from the beginning. It was highly recommended in the book Marketing for Developers. One thing I'd like to see is a better free tier for developers starting new projects. Currently, you're limited to 1000 visitors per month. Even indie projects can quickly run up monthly costs of $100+. As a comparison, Mixpanel's free tier gives devs 20 million data points per month.
thanks justin! would you be open to putting a badge on your site (similar to mixpanel's)? we also have an incubator/accelerator discount for pre-series a, just email friends@segment.com and we can get you set up.
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Latency can be more or less questionable depending on when the stopwatch button is pressed. For example, in VR, the gold standard is "motion to photon" -- anything else is just not representative of what actual latency means for actual users (i.e. getting motion sick). There are many definitions of latency, so it's important to choose the right one (the one that matters for your users). For us, latency means the time…
>For us, latency means the time between when the _event_ actually occurs in real life (user clicks on a button) and when it showed up in all of our analytics integrations (Mixpanel, Intercom, etc.). As developers, this is the definition of "latency" that really matters for us because it represents the minimum time before we can take action on our users' behaviors. This. I call it "end-to-end latency" and it doesn't g…
Separately, you can always use BigQuery's federated query capability of Bigtable.
(work at G)
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>For us, latency means the time between when the _event_ actually occurs in real life (user clicks on a button) and when it showed up in all of our analytics integrations (Mixpanel, Intercom, etc.). As developers, this is the definition of "latency" that really matters for us because it represents the minimum time before we can take action on our users' behaviors. This. I call it "end-to-end latency" and it doesn't g…
Can you please elaborate on why you think BigQuery's streaming inserts are not particularly reliable? Separately, you can always use BigQuery's federated query capability of Bigtable. (work at G)
I've heard this from many users through my work on Fluentd (in fact, many end up using fluent-plugin-bigquery because they don't want to deal with the minutiae of insertId and whatnot on their own).
Also, I don't think a lot of people fully understand the quota policy and get tripped up: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/quota-policy
>Separately, you can always use BigQuery's federated query capability of Bigtable.
Yes, and very few people understand what that means (I had to look up, and I am reasonably educated on GCP). This is not necessarily product shortcomings but packaging deficiencies that can be addressed with better product marketing.