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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Snowplow Analytics: Data Collection Platform with Alex Dean
Description: As a user browses a webpage, that browser session generates events that need to be recorded, validated, enriched, and stored. This data is sometimes called customer data infrastructure, or CDI. This data requires a full stack of different tools: a system on the frontend to collect the data, middleware to transport the data, and backend systems for storing and loading that data into data warehouses and other analytical systems.Snowplow Analytics is a data collection platform for storing events. In Snowplow, modules called Trackers send data to Collectors. The data can then be validated and enriched, and...