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Re: Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)

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Post by tiuPapa »

soumyadeb wrote: post #28
tiuPapa wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh interesting. So, how do you figure out where to send which data? Like say, I want to track an event on Google Analytics where I want to see if a new user is being redirected to my site from another site based on the Referer header(no idea if this is a valid use case for GA, its just something I have implemented for one of my projects), how would rudder figure out where to send that data? Does the User have to give…

That's right. You would have to specify at a per-event level (by specifying a flat to Rudder JSON) where to forward that event. We have something called Transformations (user defined functions) by which you can modify the event structure from the Rudder BE. You write the transformation function (currently javascript) on our UI and that gets executed in the backend on your event stream. Using the transformation, you c…

Got it, thanks. Is there any way of transforming old data? Lets say, I want to add a new platform to just store data about clicks, but some of these events stored thru Rudder doesn't have the element id, is there any way I can give these events a default element id before sending them off to the new platform?

Re: Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)

#33

Post by soumyadeb »

zenincognito wrote: post #32

I recently looked at segment and I was quoted 40k for personas. I think what you are doing is great and if you can do personas , I and my org would be eternally greatful.

If you are open to it, would love to work with you (e.g understand your requirements) as we develop the personas product. Can you please email soumyadeb@rudderstack.com

Re: Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)

#34

Post by soumyadeb »

tiuPapa wrote: post #31
soumyadeb wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's right. You would have to specify at a per-event level (by specifying a flat to Rudder JSON) where to forward that event. We have something called Transformations (user defined functions) by which you can modify the event structure from the Rudder BE. You write the transformation function (currently javascript) on our UI and that gets executed in the backend on your event stream. Using the transformation, you c…

Got it, thanks. Is there any way of transforming old data? Lets say, I want to add a new platform to just store data about clicks, but some of these events stored thru Rudder doesn't have the element id, is there any way I can give these events a default element id before sending them off to the new platform?

Yes, that is the goal of the user transformation. You can add an element_id field while in the event before it is forwarded to destinations.

Would love to understand your use case a bit more.

Re: Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)

#35

Post by soumyadeb »

adovenmuehle wrote: post #26

I recently joined Mattermost, and am currently in the midst of getting us switched over from using Segment to RudderStack. The RudderStack team has been super responsive and it's great to be able to support another open-source based business. The biggest selling point for us is being able to maintain total control of our data with us having barely having to do more than change an endpoint. It also allows us to use on…

Thanks team Mattermost. Super excited to be working with you guys!!

Re: Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)

#36

Post by knes »

zenincognito wrote: post #32

I recently looked at segment and I was quoted 40k for personas. I think what you are doing is great and if you can do personas , I and my org would be eternally greatful.

If you are looking into Segment Persona, I would love to pick your brain about what you are trying to accomplish with it.

At getGensus.com we have a tool that allows you to build persona on top of your existing data set and then sync these segments, golden records, etc to the tools of choices. It is a bit of a different approach since the data stays with our DB/Warehouse. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

If you have the time love to connect. Email is in profile

Re: Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)

#38

Post by soumyadeb »

sa46 wrote: post #37

How does the AGPL license interact with the enterprise plan? If a company pays for the cloud version that rudder hosts, is that company obligated by the provisions of the AGPL?

No, the cloud-hosted version is under a TOS which has an enterprise license.

Re: Show HN: RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)

#40

Post by soumyadeb »

jjeaff wrote: post #39

I will be interested to take a look as soon as the ElasticSearch integration is launched. We did look into Segment a while back, but $$$.

One of our users has setup logstash to load data from S3 to ElasticSearch. Would that setup work for you?
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