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Mixpanel Engineering
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Mixpanel Engineering is the company blog at engineering.mixpanel.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2018, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Analyzing My PR Data”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-13, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers cite Mixpanel's engineering blog on web components, Selenium UI testing and PR-data analysis. Most comments are job postings or references to the posts rather than judgements of them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
For over 15 years, Mixpanel engineering has led the product analytics industry, solving problems of immense scale and complexity. We're sharing our hard-won insights through this blog to help elevate the field together. with hundreds of subs
Most-linked posts?
- Analyzing My PR Data2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-10
- The state of UI testing at Mixpanel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-31
- Power-of-2-Choices in Practice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-18
What Hacker News says?
Mixpanel | Fullstack Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer | Various seniority levels, multiple openings | Remote US, SF, Seattle, Austin | Full-time | We sponsor visas | mixpanel.com/jobs At Mixpanel, our mission is to help the world learn from its data. We are focused on Product Analytics, and our strategy is product-led growth. In the last 12 months, we added over 2,000 new paying customers, our NPS has tripled, our…
Comment linking /petabyte-scale-data-deduplication-mixpanel-engineering-e808c70c99f8
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011) as a story · 192 points
HN discussionMixpanel | Fullstack Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer | Various seniority levels, multiple openings | Remote, SF, Seattle, Austin | Full-time | We sponsor visas | https://mixpanel.com/jobs At Mixpanel, our mission is to help the world learn from its data. We are focused on Product Analytics, and our strategy is product-led growth. In the last 12 months, we added over 2,000 new paying customers, our NPS has tripled,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)”Submitted Making Web Components Work as a story · 159 points
HN discussionYes, we have a Selenium-based UI test suite at Mixpanel that's overall quite stable and runs all tests across several browsers. It tests strictly the front-end code, with API calls stubbed out, which is the biggest factor in maintaining fast deterministic tests. By way of contrast we have an older end-to-end Selenium suite that spins up the entire service cluster, and that is the usual flaming pile of slow flakiness…
Comment linking /2018/10/31/the-state-of-ui-testing-at-mixpanel/
on “Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium”Submitted Safely Rewriting Mixpanel’s Highest-Throughput Service as a story · 94 points
HN discussionYeah, the way we use web components at Mixpanel involves sticking to the vanilla APIs for lifecycle management, but we still need libraries to handle inter-component communication, state and rendering (see my discussion at https://engineering.mixpanel.com/2018/06/12/making-web-compo... and https://github.com/mixpanel/panel ). I do hope some of these concerns eventually get addressed in the standards though.
Comment linking /2018/06/12/making-web-components-work/
on “The Power of Web Components”Submitted Data Deduplication at Scale as a story · 84 points
HN discussionContext: I'm the creator of https://hackernoon.com/a-college-students-individual-analysi... , and I did the same with my Github PR Data for the past year. Mixpanel version: https://engineering.mixpanel.com/2019/07/10/a-study-in-a-mix... Extended version with time analysis: http://tiffanyqi.github.io/my-projects/engineering-progress....
Comment linking /2019/07/10/a-study-in-a-mixpanel-engineers-engineering-progress/
on “Analyzing My PR Data”Submitted Saving $30k a month by improving garbage collection as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evolution of code deployment tools at Mixpanel as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Power-of-2-Choices in Practice as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding and optimizing N+1 queries on a relational database as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted The state of UI testing at Mixpanel as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live Downsizing Google Cloud PDs for Fun and Profit as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resharding Petabytes of data to improve performance for our largest customers as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing My PR Data as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ensuring Data Consistency for Continuously-Modified Data Across Replicas as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safely Rewriting Mixpanel’s Highest Throughput Service in Golang as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Petabyte Scale Data Deduplication as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automate Rotating Credentials Using Terraform as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Regression testing with production traffic at Mixpanel as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saving $30000 a month by improving Garbage Collection as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Migrated from StatsD to Prometheus in One Month as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We cut BigQuery costs 80% by hunting down costly queries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strategies for Effective Data Compaction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ensuring Data Consistency Across Replicas in a Cloud-Native Database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resharding Petabytes of data to improve performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Regression testing with production traffic at Mixpanel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saving $30000 a month by improving Garbage Collection as a story · 2 points
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