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Re: Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

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Post by soumyadeb »

indianCoder wrote: post #30

One issue I had with Segment, I couldn't run real-time transformation of the event to join data from our data tables. We eventually got over it with AWS Lambda and sending it back to Segment. Segment recently announced functions to help on this, still could not get my hands on it. Any plans on this?

Yes, that is exactly the use case of our "user defined" transformation functions. You can define any javascript function (right now by modifying the code but will be available from the UI in the release coming next week). Inside that function you can filter/transform/enhance the event in any way you like. You can lookup your DB, call external APIs etc. You can also combine multiple events into one.

Since this whole thing runs inside your VPC, you don't have to open up your production database to 3rd party as you have to do with segment.

Happy to work with you on your use case. Please email soumyadeb@rudderlabs.com

We wrote a couple of blog posts on that.

Case Study: https://rudderlabs.com/customer-case-study-casino-game/

Transformation Details:

https://rudderlabs.com/transformations-in-rudder-part-1/

https://rudderlabs.com/transformations-in-rudder-part-2/

Re: Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

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Post by indianCoder »

soumyadeb wrote: post #31
indianCoder wrote: post #30

One issue I had with Segment, I couldn't run real-time transformation of the event to join data from our data tables. We eventually got over it with AWS Lambda and sending it back to Segment. Segment recently announced functions to help on this, still could not get my hands on it. Any plans on this?

Yes, that is exactly the use case of our "user defined" transformation functions. You can define any javascript function (right now by modifying the code but will be available from the UI in the release coming next week). Inside that function you can filter/transform/enhance the event in any way you like. You can lookup your DB, call external APIs etc. You can also combine multiple events into one. Since this whole t…

This would be so awesome. Looking forward to it.

Re: Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

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Post by srameshc »

soumyadeb wrote: post #21
HillRat wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s definitely one advantage they have in the market, but it’s also related to your sales strategy. You’re looking for companies that have both the need for large-scale streaming customer and analytics data routing and transformation, no existing investment in Segment, and the ability to manage the on-prem IT and development load. While you can probably go after smaller and more agile fish with, e.g., recipes for…

Hmm, honestly we don't have any connections into those. Would love to connect with you if you can help us. Interestingly, some of our initial pilots chose us not so much for privacy but for pricing. Segment's pricing doesn't work if you have a lot of free users (free games, online bloggers etc. There was a hackernews thread on this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220518 We want to compete on the privacy angl…

Thanks for Rudder. Segment pricing was a deterrent for us because we have free tier. I searched a few days back but I am so glad I found something so awesome again on Hacker News :)

Re: Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

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Post by soumyadeb »

srameshc wrote: post #33
soumyadeb wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, honestly we don't have any connections into those. Would love to connect with you if you can help us. Interestingly, some of our initial pilots chose us not so much for privacy but for pricing. Segment's pricing doesn't work if you have a lot of free users (free games, online bloggers etc. There was a hackernews thread on this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220518 We want to compete on the privacy angl…

Thanks for Rudder. Segment pricing was a deterrent for us because we have free tier. I searched a few days back but I am so glad I found something so awesome again on Hacker News :)

Thanks. Would love to help you out with your use case if you want. Please email me at soumyadeb@rudderlabs.com

Re: Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

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Post by platform »

very interesting and approacheable solution.

With regards to: >" Rudder runs as a single go binary with Postgres. It also needs the destination (e.g. GA, Amplitude) specific transformation code which are node scripts. "

what would be a recommended approach, if I would like to keep the data internally, and not use external Analytics engine?

Re: Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

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Post by soumyadeb »

platform wrote: post #37

very interesting and approacheable solution. With regards to: >" Rudder runs as a single go binary with Postgres. It also needs the destination (e.g. GA, Amplitude) specific transformation code which are node scripts. " what would be a recommended approach, if I would like to keep the data internally, and not use external Analytics engine?

We also have a S3 destination so you can just add S3.

Support for other data-warehouses (Redshift, Bigquery etc) is coming soon.

Re: Rudder, an open source Segment alternative

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Post by soumyadeb »

yodi wrote: post #39

This is awesome! Never know if anyone build things like Segment. I will try this alternative solution to our company and will keep update here about the result.

Author here. Happy to help you out with this, in case you need it. Please email me at soumyadeb@rudderlabs.com. Or please join our slack - https://rudderlabs.herokuapp.com/
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