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This seems to be Segment: https://segment.com/ https://segment.com/ I don't know what they do. I couldn't find the open source library in question either.

by remram 4y ago

DanielVZ 4y ago
> Segment collects events from your web & mobile apps and provides a complete data toolkit to every team in your company
- remram 4y ago
  But what does that mean? Do they receive event data or timeseries and graph it?
  - MAGZine 4y ago
    they forward those events to all of your other systems (e.g. CRM, webhook, helpdesk). they can also do some data health/quality monitoring.
    - remram 4y ago
      It seems that this open source library can directly submit web tracking data to multiple platforms, like Google Analytics. If this is the case I don't understand what Segment the company does. I understand that I am probably not their target population, but I really can't decipher the buzzwords on their website.
  - joegahona 4y ago
    No. There is no data visualizer inside of Segment. It’s a very expensive customer-data-infrastructure tool.
  - gmt2027 4y ago
    Integrate segment with your application on the web and mobile and you can enable or disable downstream data delivery to any one of the services at https://segment.com/catalog/ https://segment.com/catalog/ without touching your code. This leaves your engineering team free of requests to integrate your product with new services your marketing and analytics teams want to use.
phanis 4y ago
You may find it at https://github.com/orgs/segmentio/repositories?type=all https://github.com/orgs/segmentio/repositories?type=all
- remram 4y ago
  Which is the one mentioned in the article, which is touted to be the single thing responsible for their success? > This open-source library had only 580 lines of code I'm sure it's in there, but even filtering out forks there's 289 results.
  - phonon 4y ago
    Probably this. https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js/tags?after=0.8.10 https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js/tags?after=0.8.10
lovingCranberry 4y ago
https://segment.com/opensource/ https://segment.com/opensource/ I believe the library in question is "analytics.js"
- sdoering 4y ago
  I tried to understand the segment analytics open source sdk coming from the apache unomi project's documentation. It seems unomi is using analytics.js syntax in tracking users. I still don't get the benefit, though. I know quite a few analytics tools and have implemented my fair share of these. But still. I just run into a wall every time I try to understand the OS analytics.js benefits.
- remram 4y ago
  Thanks! Direct link: https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js Now deprecated and replaced by https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-next https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-next
SkyPuncher 4y ago
Kind of a blend of Zapier, an ETL platform, and an analytics platform. Makes it really easy for analyst roles to start collecting and providing data insights. Not as robust as a dedicated team, but easy and accessible.

This seems to be Segment: https://segment.com/ https://segment.com/ I don't know what they do. I couldn't find the open source library in question either.

by remram 4y ago

This seems to be Segment: https://segment.com/ https://segment.com/ I don't know what they do. I couldn't find the open source library in question either.

DanielVZ 4y ago

> Segment collects events from your web & mobile apps and provides a complete data toolkit to every team in your company

remram 4y ago
But what does that mean? Do they receive event data or timeseries and graph it?
- MAGZine 4y ago
  they forward those events to all of your other systems (e.g. CRM, webhook, helpdesk). they can also do some data health/quality monitoring.
  - remram 4y ago
    It seems that this open source library can directly submit web tracking data to multiple platforms, like Google Analytics. If this is the case I don't understand what Segment the company does. I understand that I am probably not their target population, but I really can't decipher the buzzwords on their website.
- joegahona 4y ago
  No. There is no data visualizer inside of Segment. It’s a very expensive customer-data-infrastructure tool.
- gmt2027 4y ago
  Integrate segment with your application on the web and mobile and you can enable or disable downstream data delivery to any one of the services at https://segment.com/catalog/ https://segment.com/catalog/ without touching your code. This leaves your engineering team free of requests to integrate your product with new services your marketing and analytics teams want to use.

phanis 4y ago

You may find it at https://github.com/orgs/segmentio/repositories?type=all https://github.com/orgs/segmentio/repositories?type=all

remram 4y ago
Which is the one mentioned in the article, which is touted to be the single thing responsible for their success? > This open-source library had only 580 lines of code I'm sure it's in there, but even filtering out forks there's 289 results.
- phonon 4y ago
  Probably this. https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js/tags?after=0.8.10 https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js/tags?after=0.8.10

lovingCranberry 4y ago

https://segment.com/opensource/ https://segment.com/opensource/ I believe the library in question is "analytics.js"

sdoering 4y ago
I tried to understand the segment analytics open source sdk coming from the apache unomi project's documentation. It seems unomi is using analytics.js syntax in tracking users. I still don't get the benefit, though. I know quite a few analytics tools and have implemented my fair share of these. But still. I just run into a wall every time I try to understand the OS analytics.js benefits.
remram 4y ago
Thanks! Direct link: https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js Now deprecated and replaced by https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-next https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-next

SkyPuncher 4y ago

Kind of a blend of Zapier, an ETL platform, and an analytics platform. Makes it really easy for analyst roles to start collecting and providing data insights. Not as robust as a dedicated team, but easy and accessible.