Steve Coppin-Smith

Tech leadership, sports thoughts (rhymes) and rants about poor customer service. VP Engineering at Snowplow Analytics,

[Mike Carter @mcarterj]

🙌 New side project! 🙌 I’m putting together a collection of blog posts about microservice adoption at https://t.co/3oKaZvnbzU, with the goal of educating and informing.

If you know of blog posts or articles you think would be good there please submit some! ❤️

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@nickifyi @Mandelliant @LinkedIn But when they stop working you'll need a new car.

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@Mandelliant @nickifyi What you didn't know is that my late arrival was caused by me singing a song about not joining the call.

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

The team has been levelling up the experience of our data models and mobile trackers. Crucially important in engaging the whole business in data strategy!

Sign up here 👇
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[Cara Baestlein @CaraBaestlein]

In this month's @snowplowdata Product Office Hours we'll be talking all things mobile analytics!

On April 28th, we'll give you our take on how the landscape is evolving, and showcase some of the new features we have developed!

https://t.co/bwBOGQCk7u

#snowplow #mobileanalytics

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@red___square @ezramechaber @snowplowdata @RudderStack @iteratively Oh, never denied it's asked for occasionally.

Arguably, we have all the flex, but it's build-your-own. If the intention is to integrate with a variety of marketing platforms over building a data asset to solve your own use cases a CDP may well be the better bet.

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@ezramechaber @red___square @rahulj51 CDPs may write to a warehouse, but the format of the data dictates how useful it'll be to your data team.

Snowplow is built ground up to serve data teams, designed to be worked with directly. You'll know more about Segment, but worth holding it up to https://t.co/Lqqx6jqZ9o

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@rahulj51 @red___square @ezramechaber @snowplowdata @RudderStack @iteratively It's an option. It feels conceptually the wrong place, more than anything. Ideal world we'd refactor enrichments to make them more pluggable AND push a relay toolkit.

We're getting ready to publish a public roadmap to show what we're prioritising, and see if you agree!

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@red___square @ezramechaber @snowplowdata @RudderStack @iteratively As @rahulj51 notes in the comments on that post, writing a relay to a 3rd party is not super-complex for a data engineer. Most of the challenge is in the business logic.

That said, we would like to one day take some of the extract, handle, send stuff off the integrators hands.

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@red___square @ezramechaber @snowplowdata @RudderStack @iteratively Days since this post bit back - 0

It was a good run...

We were (still are) enthusiastic about this, but it's a question of priorities. We're focusing on building the best data asset for data teams to deeply understand their customers. We think this is what helps teams win out.

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@ezramechaber @snowplowdata @RudderStack @iteratively [8/7] Never felt so old as I do now, trying to find out how the cool kids are threading replies.

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@ezramechaber @snowplowdata @RudderStack @iteratively [7/7] More comprehensive thoughts on all of this on our blog. https://t.co/sRdih9DaAO

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

@nickifyi @snowplowdata Pinnacle of my career. It's downhill from here.

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

🤞to be in the next round.

[airtimetools @AirtimeTools]

We've sent out the first 1,000 invites! From today, we'll send invitations every day, and we plan to get everyone who wants access up and running by the end of the month. The response so far has been incredible. Thanks so much—we couldn't do this without all of you.

[Steve Coppin-Smith @coppin_smith]

This has been a great series so far! Looking forward to the grand finale. 🎉