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Mixpanel Engineering
engineering.mixpanel.com · Company blog · on HN since 2018
Mixpanel's engineering team writes about running its analytics product, covering data deduplication, service rewrites, UI testing and event tracking.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for Mixpanel's UI testing setup and a PR data analysis post; a Mixpanel staffer also answers questions and posts job listings.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Power-of-2-Choices in Practice2 people · 44 points · first shared 2021 · 13 comments on HN
- 2The state of UI testing at Mixpanel2 people · 36 points · first shared 2018 · 6 comments on HN
- 3Analyzing My PR Data2 people · 14 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 4How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011)1 people · 192 points · first shared 2019 · 141 comments on HN
- 5Making Web Components Work1 people · 159 points · first shared 2018 · 111 comments on HN
- 6Safely Rewriting Mixpanel’s Highest-Throughput Service1 people · 94 points · first shared 2019 · 17 comments on HN
- 7Data Deduplication at Scale1 people · 84 points · first shared 2019 · 11 comments on HN
- 8Saving $30k a month by improving garbage collection1 people · 58 points · first shared 2021 · 6 comments on HN
- 9Evolution of code deployment tools at Mixpanel1 people · 45 points · first shared 2021 · 13 comments on HN
- 10Finding and optimizing N+1 queries on a relational database1 people · 42 points · first shared 2024 · 48 comments on HN
- 11Live Downsizing Google Cloud PDs for Fun and Profit1 people · 17 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12Resharding Petabytes of data to improve performance for our largest customers1 people · 17 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Ensuring Data Consistency for Continuously-Modified Data Across Replicas1 people · 10 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Safely Rewriting Mixpanel’s Highest Throughput Service in Golang1 people · 9 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 15Petabyte Scale Data Deduplication1 people · 7 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
tdumitrescu · 2020-02-26
Yes, 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 associated with Selenium. One of our engineers did a writeup on it a few years ago (now somewhat outdated but the overall picture is still accurate): https://engineering.mixpanel.com/2018/10/31/the-state-of-ui-testing-at…
tiffanyqi · 2019-07-10
Context: I'm the creator of https://hackernoon.com/a-college-students-individual-analysis-of-produ… , 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-mixpanel-engi…
Extended version with time analysis: http://tiffanyqi.github.io/my-projects/engineering-progress.html
jyumMXP · 2021-11-01
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 data volumes have doubled, and we’ve grown to 270+ team members with offices across the US (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Austin).
Our Infrastructure Engineers tackle large scale data issues as we ingest petabytes of event data. We tracked over 2 QUADrillion events last month. You can read about one such challenge here: Petabyte Scale Data Deduplication <<https://engineering.mixpanel.com/petabyte-scale-data-deduplication-mix…
Our Full Stack Engineers led the charge in tripling our NPS in the past 18 months << https://mixpanel.com/blog/how-we-tripled-nps-score-in-18-months/>&g…
Tech Stack = JS, Python, Go, C++, GCP, Kubernetes, NoSQL
We are language agnostic while hiring though
Priority Opportunities:
* Sr. Product Manager (Remote US): https://ats.comparably.com/api/v1/gh/mixpanel/jobs/3164962?gh_jid=3164…
* Sr. Infrastructure Engineer (Distributed Systems; Remote US): https://ats.comparably.com/api/v1/gh/mixpanel/jobs/142062?gh_jid=14206…
* Full Stack Engineer (Core Product; Austin TX):…