Do’s and don’ts for a successful SDE internship

An intern and their mentor reflect on their learnings from the Twilio Segment Summer internship program, and share tips to help both find success. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 1 year ago

How to plan an SMS MFA migration that affects thousands of users

In this blog, we share what went right and where we had to pivot in our plan to upgrade the API we use for SMS 2FA, affecting thousands of people. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 1 year ago

10x'ing mobile SDK performance with Swift and Kotlin

Analytics Swift and Analytics Kotlin are libraries that provide a simple, modern instrumentation experience for mobile apps. This blog post highlights key performance improvements for these next-generation SDKs. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 1 year ago

Fixing IAM policies is hard, and what have we done to solve it

How do you resolve IAM policies that pose a security risk? We'll walk you through how we identified this concern and improved security for our engineers. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 2 years ago

Updating Topicctl to Support the Future of Kafka

Updating Topicctl to Support the Future of Kafka | Continue reading


@segment.com | 2 years ago

Data Modeling 101: What Are Data Models?

Through data modeling, stakeholders can agree on the data they’ll capture and for what purposes before building databases and warehouses. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 2 years ago

Bye bye bastion hosts Hello AWS IAM

How Segment moved from traditional SSH bastion hosts to use AWS Systems Manager SSM to manage access to infrastructure. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 2 years ago

Segment's Access Service

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@segment.com | 2 years ago

PM and EM Rules of Engagement

A strong PM & EM partnership is at the heart of all high-achieving software development teams. Here's how we do it at Segment. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 2 years ago

Analytics.js 2.0 – the analytics library built for the modern web

Analytics.js, Segment’s javascript library is getting an upgrade. Introducing Analytics.js 2.0 — the analytics library designed for site performance, extensibility, privacy controls, and more! | Continue reading


@segment.com | 2 years ago

Redefining Threat Modeling: Security team goes on vacation

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@segment.com | 3 years ago

Shifting Engineering Right: What security engineers can learn from DevSecOps

Building customer-facing security features in partnership with dev teams helps you better serve your customers, unlocks additional revenue, and bidirectionally transfers knowledge between teams—a concept at the very core of DevSecOps. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 3 years ago

We sped up syncing millions of rows per minute to Redshift by 80%

Waiting hours for Redshift warehouses to sync? Here's how we reduced our sync times by 80%. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 3 years ago

Scaling security services with AWS organizations

Improving Segment's security posture by adding AWS organizations to our AWS security services implementation | Continue reading


@segment.com | 3 years ago

The $10m engineering problem (2019)

The most successful SAAS companies today have one thing in common – a world class gross margin. This is the story of how we improved our gross margin by 20% in 90 days. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 3 years ago

How we saved $100k month with Kafka networking optimization

Network transfer costs are one of the biggest costs of running on the cloud. Here's how we optimized ours to save $100k month. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 3 years ago

Segment and Twilio: The Future of Customer Engagement

Segment has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Twilio, a company that shares our passion and vision for enabling businesses to drive meaningful customer engagement and experiences. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 3 years ago

How we moved to GitHub-based Kubernetes config management

Today, we're releasing kubeapply, a lightweight tool for git-based management of Kubernetes configs. Here's why. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 3 years ago

Topicctl – an easier way to manage Kafka topics

Today, we're releasing Topicctl, a tool for easy, declarative management of Kafka topics. Here's why | Continue reading


@segment.com | 3 years ago

How we run our bug bounty program at Segment

In this post we’ll break down how to start and manage a bug bounty program, consistently achieve good results, and maintain healthy relationships with the people that power the program. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 4 years ago

Segment is hiring a growth designer to re-imagine our onboarding

We’re a small team, so everyone has a huge impact. We love open-sourcing our code and writing down everything we’ve learned. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 4 years ago

Segment Leads Anti-CRM Declaration with Mixpanel, Drift, Outreach

Segment is a customer data infrastructure (CDI) platform that helps you collect, clean, and control your customer data. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 4 years ago

SQL Changed Segment (2015)

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Segment (YC S11) is hiring engineers to join our billing team and help us scale

We’re a small team, so everyone has a huge impact. We love open-sourcing our code and writing down everything we’ve learned. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 4 years ago

Segment (YC S11) is hiring platform engineers in NYC

We’re a small team, so everyone has a huge impact. We love open-sourcing our code and writing down everything we’ve learned. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 4 years ago

What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Choosing a Database for Analytics

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

The $10m Engineering Problem

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Allocation efficiency in high-performance Go services

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Lessons learned from 95,000 landing pages

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Segment: The Privacy Portal (Data Privacy, Automated)

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Functions: Ship your ideas faster

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Segment Functions

With Segment using Functions, you can connect data from thousands of tools into Segment, enrich that data as it flows through it, and send data to new types of destinations—all with just a few lines of JavaScript. Start building today. | Continue reading


@segment.com | 4 years ago

Segment – 9/5/2019 – Security Incident

Security Bulletins - Security Incident | Continue reading


@segment.com | 4 years ago

Scaling NSQ to 750B Messages

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Finding product-market fit again

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Serving 100µs Reads with 100% Availability

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Helping customers secure their accounts

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Separating our data and control planes with ctlstore

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Cultivating Your Data Lake

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Cultivating Your Data Lake

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

What Happened After the GDPR?

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

Using analytics to help millions file for bankruptcy

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@segment.com | 4 years ago

The tools of today aren’t the tools of tomorrow

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@segment.com | 5 years ago

Choosing Metrics That Matter

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@segment.com | 5 years ago

When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t

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@segment.com | 5 years ago

A brief history of the UUID

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@segment.com | 5 years ago

Segment 2018 Year in Review

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@segment.com | 5 years ago