Mixpanel employee here, I actually just emailed Jitsu this morning to ask about adding Mixpanel as a destination. We're willing to work with them (or any of you!) to get the PR open. Feel free to reach out directly to josh@mixpanel.com!
I believe their value lies in their e-commerce partnerships. You can effectively check out (almost) as seamlessly as a using a credit card on partner sites. I used Klarna when I bought new golf clubs. They show up right on the checkout screen. I can afford to buy them outright but it was an interest free loan for two years so it made logical sense to me.
I believe tech is still largely a meritocracy. If you think you should be paid more than someone, you should prove it with impact. If the goal of your education was compensation and your education doesn’t enable you to have more impact than a boot camp grad, then you overpaid.
Mixpanel is hiring full-stack and front-end leaning software engineers for its new ATX office. This is a unique opportunity to work with top-tier talent and be compensated as such while helping us a grow our small team in Austin into something bigger.
The product engineering team creates the face of Mixpanel. We organize in small, nimble product groups (two to five engineers in close partnership with PM and design) with huge autonomy over what we build and how we build it. You will own the full stack for your product areas, from database schemas and HTTP APIs to data visualization down to the last CSS detail. A passion for product and empathy for the user are key. Our stack includes Python, Golang, and lots of JavaScript & TypeScript.
Hey there, I think I may have already spoken with you. Got connected with the Seattle office through Triplebyte, then bounced over to an ATX hiring manager due to my being located in Austin. Took that call while running around NYC, in case it was you who I spoke with and you recall that.
This is a concern with monorepo but you can still enforce the boundaries programmatically. For example you can add some simple, custom lint rules that prevent cross-boundary imports.
Another thing you can do is have your CI only check out specific directories when running tests using something like git’s sparse-checkout.
We have been using a small bit of glue code to write Web Components declaratively with Snabbdom for a couple of years at Mixpanel: https://github.com/mixpanel/panel. Happy to talk further about our experience!
Just curious, what are the reasons to be on "a bunch of metrics platforms"? Specifically, what are the various problems you were trying solve with different tools?
One of the big benefits of Segment's higher tiers is that you can replay historical data into new tools, which I don't believe is typically possible if you just integrate a new platform directly. Business needs change.
In our case we route analytics to Google Analytics, Intercom, and a Postgres database (using Segment's warehousing support) - that gives us high level analytics for marketing, customer support tooling, and raw data for the team who work with that.
We provide a white labelled platform for a few enterprise customers as well, and Segment allows us to route data to the appropriate accounts for each of those services, rather than having to set everything up manually each time.
It's funny to me how many people are outraged at Facebook's focus on data collection and privacy "invasion" for the sake of monetization. Every company is using whatever data they can access to make as much money as possible without alienating their user base.
Facebook might be more aggressive (or perhaps just more transparent) about it. However, to think, as a rule, any company (particularly a public company) is making decisions based on ethics or your best interest is naive. It's all about revenue.
I think there's an outrage because this time Facebook is infiltrating our social lives and interactions to a level never seen before. When was the last time that one company had such overarching power and knowledge into human interactions? It's scary to me, because I can think of ways the general public can be deceived, manipulated, and exploited for commercial gain. Facebook is also quite the monopoly in social media, and as mentioned in the comments, it has already acquired its competitors Whatsapp and Instagram. Facebook has the potential to become very anticompetitive, and it's current practices might be harmful to the general public in the near future.
We've been using Web Components + Virtual DOM to build our web apps for the last year at Mixpanel: https://github.com/mixpanel/panel. The biggest issues have been dealing with polyfill issues (especially Shadow DOM leakage) and versioning elements (given the global namespace issue of "registerElement")
