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Twilio
Company blog · segment.com/blog · on HN as fouadmatindataprogramming
Twilio is the company blog at segment.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2014, 223 different Hacker News readers have linked it 465 times, most often “Is Segment Worth It?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Mostly bare links, hiring posts and passing mentions; the linked Segment posts cover engineering topics such as going back to a monolith, exactly-once delivery and a million-dollar engineering problem.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Collect, unify, and enrich customer data across any app or device with the Twilio Segment CDP, now available on Twilio.com.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Segment Worth It?13 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2015-07-23
- /12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2015-10-09
- Centrifuge: a reliable system for delivering billions of events per day11 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2018-05-23
- A Brief History of the UUID9 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2017-06-07
- A million-dollar engineering problem9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2017-03-15
- The $10m Engineering Problem8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-10-17
- /jobs6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-12-01
- Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-06-29
- Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-07-10
- Separating our data and control planes with ctlstore5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-06-25
What Hacker News says?
As an engineer/YC founder turned B2B go-to-market/sales leader, I can attest that it's hard to learn sales without jumping in and doing it. That said, a few things helped me along the way: 1) I found a mentor that I could relate too, one that did exactly what I was trying to do (an aside, I ended up joining a company called Boomtrain and learned how to sell while helping him build product -- this hybrid role evolved…
Comment linking /blog/how-to-sell-a-b2b-product/
on “Ask HN: How to learn sales?”Submitted Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar as a story · 1277 points
HN discussionI have to point out that while their marketing copy claims that they want to know "as little as possible" about their customers, they have Segment's JavaScript tag on thehelm.com Do you know what Segment does? It makes it easy to send data anywhere -> https://segment.com/catalog
Comment linking /catalog
on “Helm: Personal Email Server”Submitted A million-dollar engineering problem as a story · 570 points
HN discussionWe've put https://segment.com/academy on PH (an email course on growth and analytics) and has seen some great traction amongst that community. It certainly is a specific audience, but the traffic is pretty good.
Comment linking /academy
on “How Product Hunt really works”Submitted Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once as a story · 492 points
HN discussionSegment | Full-Stack Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | http://www.segment.com Segment’s mission is to make it super easy for companies to use their customer data to build incredible products. We’re building towards a future where all customer data in the world flows through Segment. As a Full Stack Engineer, you are essential to that future. You will work closely with designers to build the user in…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted From Show HN to Series D as a story · 361 points
HN discussionSegment | Engineering | San Francisco, CA or Vancouver, BC | Full-Time | Onsite Segment is building the analytics routing layer for the world. We transform data into over 150 different services, adding new ones every day. We're processing billions of events each month, and maintaining the analytics infrastructure for companies like DigitalOcean, Atlassian, New Relic, and Docker. Our goal is to help companies learn f…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted A Brief History of the UUID as a story · 304 points
HN discussionSegment – Engineering | SF (local) Segment is building the analytics routing layer for the world. We transform data into over 150 different services, adding new ones every day. We’re processing billions of events each month, and maintaining the analytics infrastructure for companies like Rdio, Bonobos, and Atlassian. Where we're at: - built with Go, Node, NSQ, Redis, AWS - a little under 50 people, and growing activ…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Segment Is Now Free for Early-Stage Startups as a story · 248 points
HN discussion> I think a strong - extremely strong - selling point is the point I made about "prebaked" data for your APIs. I think caches are an excellent use case for LiteFS early on. Sorry I didn't make that point in my previous reply. It's a good way to get benefits out of LiteFS without committing to it as your source of truth. Also related, Segment built a custom SQLite-based solution[1] for distributing out cached data th…
Comment linking /blog/separating-our-data-and-control-planes-with-ctlstore/
on “LiteFS”Submitted Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces as a story · 240 points
HN discussionSegment | Engineering | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | Onsite Segment is building the analytics routing layer for the world. We transform data into over 150 different services, adding new ones every day. We’re processing billions of events each month, and maintaining the analytics infrastructure for companies like DigitalOcean, Atlassian, New Relic, and Docker. Our goal is to help companies learn from how their use…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted The Deep Roots of JavaScript Fatigue as a story · 239 points
HN discussionSegment | Engineering | San Francisco, CA or Vancouver, BC | Full-Time | Onsite Segment is building the analytics routing layer for the world. We transform data into over 150 different services, adding new ones every day. We're processing billions of events each month, and maintaining the analytics infrastructure for companies like DigitalOcean, Atlassian, New Relic, and Docker. Our goal is to help companies learn f…
Comment linking /engineering
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Show HN: The Segment AWS Stack as a story · 237 points
HN discussionSegment – Engineering | SF (local) Segment is building the analytics routing layer for the world. We transform data into over 150 different services, adding new ones every day. We’re processing billions of events each month, and maintaining the analytics infrastructure for companies like DigitalOcean, Zenefits, and Atlassian. Where we're at: - built with Go, Node, Kafka, Containers, NSQ, Redis, AWS - just over 100 p…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Secure Access to 100 AWS Accounts as a story · 214 points
HN discussionI wanted to try it, but their RSS/ATOM feed support is broken. The feed[1] currently 404's with a single emoji[2]. No feed support is a non-starter for me. Question for you since you presumably read their blog: Do you follow a bunch of blogs/news sources? If so, how do you do it without using feeds? [1]: https://segment.com/blog/atom.xml [2]: https://emojipedia.org/police-car-light/
Comment linking /blog/atom.xml
on “How some good corporate engineering blogs are written”Submitted Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator as a story · 208 points
HN discussionSegment | Engineering | SF, Vancouver | Full-time | https://segment.com Segment is growing quickly and hiring great engineers to help us scale our engineering org. If you would like to see all of our job postings, https://segment.com/jobs . Some work that our engineers are doing: - https://segment.com/blog/the-million-dollar-eng-problem/ - https://segment.com/blog/5-advanced-testing-techniques-in-go... - https://seg…
Comment linking /jobs/1027425-Site-Reliability-Engineering-Manager
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t as a story · 203 points
HN discussionthere is a related post on Segment's blog : https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-microservices/ which helps to get a bit more details and contexts update : and related video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv5o3qnQu5w
Comment linking /blog/goodbye-microservices/
on “Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith”Submitted The Growth Stacks of 2019 as a story · 200 points
HN discussionI appreciate and welcome this requirement from Apple. Some time ago I built something I call “Network Blackhole”. The project intercepts HTTP traffic from applications that I installed in either my MacBook or iPhone. An excellent example of this is Crashlytics [1], Segment [2], and Sentry [3], which are among a list of popular web services that many developers use to report bugs and crashes in their software, and th…
Comment linking /
on “ Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code”Submitted Gotchas from Two Years with Node as a story · 199 points
HN discussionSegment | Engineering | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | Onsite Segment is building the analytics routing layer for the world. We transform data into over 150 different services, adding new ones every day. We're processing billions of events each month, and maintaining the analytics infrastructure for companies like DigitalOcean, Atlassian, New Relic, and Docker. Our goal is to help companies learn from how their use…
Comment linking /engineering
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React as a story · 189 points
HN discussion
