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Snowplow
Company blog · snowplowanalytics.com/blogdataprogramming
Snowplow is the company blog at snowplowanalytics.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2012, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 196 times, most often “Open source web analytics powered by Hadoop, Hive, Redshift & Postgres”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 7 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention Snowplow as an open-source, self-hostable event-data collection and analytics platform, a Google Analytics alternative for larger traffic. Many comments are alternative lists or job posts.
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.
Equip agents with real-time customer context and understand every digital user interaction: human & AI alike.
Most-linked posts?
- /11 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2017-05-09
- Open source web analytics powered by Hadoop, Hive, Redshift & Postgres10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2013-03-22
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-08
- /company/careers/3 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2017-07-03
- Building an event grammar for universal event analytics3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-12
- /blog/2014/05/15/introducing-self-describing-jsons/2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-05-16
- /about/jobs/technical-product-manager/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-01
- Snowplow, the (open source) event data pipeline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-22
- Iglu schema repository 0.1.0 released2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-30
- Can graph databases enable whole new classes of event analytics?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Snowplow is also an option. It’s an open-source data collection solution that, unlike GA, gives you full ownership of your event-level data and the freedom to define your own data structures. Not exactly what you’d call ‘lightweight’ but quite a few Snowplow users/customers have come from GA for the level of flexibility and control they can have over their data sets. (Full disclosure: I work for Snowplow Analytics)…
Comment linking /
on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted How we integrated our purely functional Scala backend with the Open Policy Agent as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSnowplow Analytics ( http://snowplowanalytics.com ) | Support Engineer | REMOTE UTC+8 to UTC+10 Having grown our team to two support engineers with a broad timezone reach (Alberta, Canada to Berlin, Germany), we are now looking to move to a full “follow the sun” model, and hire our third support engineer in the UTC+8 to UTC+10 timezone range. This is a support engineering role - not a support agent role. We are look…
Comment linking /about/jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Show HN: Using graph databases for pathing analysis – experiments with Neo4J as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSnowplow is hiring in London, Berlin and remote. Front-end engineering, data engineering, systems, marketing and product management. https://snowplowanalytics.com/company/careers/ Join our team and help us give companies control of their own data.
Comment linking /company/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Show HN: Try Snowplow as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYour pm link seems to have truncated, found the full link here: http://snowplowanalytics.com/about/jobs/technical-product-ma...
Comment linking /about/jobs/technical-product-manager/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Show HN: Introducing Sauna, a decisioning and response platform as a story · 6 points
HN discussion* 1 point by alexatkeplar 31 days ago | parent [-] | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) Snowplow Analytics ( http://snowplowanalytics.com/ ) | London, Berlin, Remote | Full-time, Intern Snowplow ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ) is the leading open source event data pipeline, used by some of the most data-sophisticated organizations in the world. Headquartered in London UK, Snowplow is looking to fil…
Comment linking /about/jobs/junior-data-analyst/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Introducing Snowplow Mini as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSnowplow Analytics ( http://snowplowanalytics.com ) | Support Engineer | REMOTE UTC+8 to UTC+10 Having grown our team to two support engineers with a broad timezone reach (Alberta, Canada to Berlin, Germany), we are now looking to move to a full “follow the sun” model, and hire our third support engineer in the UTC+8 to UTC+10 timezone range. This is a support engineering role - not a support agent role. We are look…
Comment linking /about/jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted How to build a content recommendation engine with Snowplow as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSnowplow Analytics | Open-Source Engineer | Remote, INTERN. Snowplow Analytics is looking for 1-2 open source software interns this Summer (May through August), for a 8-12 week paid internship. Our interns will work directly on and contribute to projects within the Snowplow open source stack ( https://github.com/snowplow ). A Snowplow intern loves coding, enjoys experimenting with new technologies and is happiest wo…
Comment linking /company/careers/systems-administrator/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Show HN: Kinesis Tee 0.1.0 released for Kinesis stream filtering/transformation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSnowplow Analytics ( http://snowplowanalytics.com/ ) | London, Remote | Full-time Snowplow ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ) is the leading open source event data pipeline, used by some of the most data-sophisticated organizations in the world. Headquartered in London UK, Snowplow is looking to fill a variety of positions in London or working remote. Positions: Technical product manager - http://snowplowanaly…
Comment linking /about/jobs/junior-data-analyst/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted A introduction to event data modeling as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSnowplow Analytics | Site Reliability Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE Europe | https://snowplowanalytics.com/ Snowplow is the ideal platform for data teams who want to manage their data in real-time and in their own cloud. We collect, validate, enrich and load up to 5 billion events for our customers each day and help them on their data journey through our management console. We are looking for an SRE to join our team…
Comment linking /company/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted We need to talk about bad data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLondon, UK or Berlin, Germany | Technical Product Manager | Snowplow Analytics | ONSITE Over the past four years Snowplow has grown into the industry-leading open-source event data pipeline ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ), consisting of a dizzying array of user-facing products and SDKs, software libraries, general-purpose infrastructure tools, plus the proprietary products supporting our Managed Service. We…
Comment linking /about/jobs/technical-product-manager/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted First Experiments with Apache Spark at Snowplow as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI know of three (all OSS) * https://www.posthog.com/ (more mixpanel alternative, can auto-track events too) * https://snowplowanalytics.com/ * https://rudderstack.com/ (explicitly say it's Segment alternative)
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on “Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B”Submitted How configurable data models and schemas make digital analytics better as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSnowplow Analytics ( http://snowplowanalytics.com/ ) | London, Berlin, Remote | Full-time, Intern Snowplow ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ) is the leading open source event data pipeline, used by some of the most data-sophisticated organizations in the world. Headquartered in London UK, Snowplow is looking to fill a variety of positions in London, Berlin or working remote. Positions: Technical product manage…
Comment linking /about/jobs/junior-data-analyst/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted Snowplow, the (open source) event data pipeline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWeb Analytics I feel is years behind data science - but tools like http://snowplowanalytics.com/ are becoming much more widespread and are taking market share away from Google and Adobe which is good for everyone. Free GA is still the best tool for small sites.
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on “Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?”Submitted Introducing Factotum data pipeline runner as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSnowplow Analytics | Multiple Roles | Full-time | REMOTE| https://snowplowanalytics.com/ 1) Senior Data Consultant (UTC +/- 2) 2) Support Engineer (UTC +7 to +12) 3) Marketing Operations Manager (UTC +/- 2) Apply here: https://snowplowanalytics.com/company/careers/ It’s a hugely exciting time here at Snowplow. Over the last 7 years, we’ve grown to a brilliant 50 person team that is spread out over 14 countries with…
Comment linking /company/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”Submitted AWS Lambda Node.js example project released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSnowplow Analytics | ONSITE (London)/REMOTE (UTC+0 - UTC+1) | Full-time | https://snowplowanalytics.com/ Snowplow is a startup with a mission to empower people and companies to use data to do transformative things. We provide technology and services that enables our users to collect the data that they want, use that data to surprise and delight their customers, and transform their business. We have an office in Shor…
Comment linking /company/careers/?gh_jid=969721
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted Modeling events through entity snapshotting as a story · 3 points
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