Engineers & Developers
A blog for engineers, by engineers
Showcasing solutions and best practices of Segment engineers using some of our favorite tools.
Tracking Meaningful Security Product Metrics
Meaningful security metrics demonstrate that your security organization is mitigating risk and driving sales.

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Monoliths, Microservices, and Containers. Oh my!
This blog covers the history of monoliths, which made way to microservices and ultimately, monoliths in the container.

Comparison: Mixpanel Actions vs. Mixpanel Classic Destinations when using Segment
In this blog, we shed clarity on what's changed in Segment's Actions destinations and how to further leverage Mixpanel and Segment to enhance your analytics capability.

How Twilio Segment proactively protects customer’s API tokens
Explore how Segment's Security Features Team built solutions to protect customers from committed and orphaned secrets.

Changing of the guard: migrating an authorization service used by thousands of customers from Go to Typescript
You don't have to fear making a change to a mission critical service sitting. We'll address the root cause of the fear and how to make future changes as stress-free and secure as possible.

How to Activate Your Data (And Why You Need To)
An overview of data activation and why it's essential.

Tracking Meaningful Security Product Metrics
Meaningful security metrics demonstrate that your security organization is mitigating risk and driving sales.

Twilio Segment Edge SDK Powered by Cloudflare Workers
With Segment Edge SDK, built on Cloudflare Workers, developers can collect high-quality first-party data and use Segment Edge SDK to access realtime user profiles and state, to deliver personalized app experiences without managing a ton of infrastructure.

The Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler - A Guide to Advanced Configuration
This blog looks at basic and advanced HPA configuration & a case where proper tuning led to a doubling in service efficiency and over $100,000 of monthly cloud compute value saved.

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.