[jdotjdot]

Segment is one of my favorite products, and I consider it a core part of our stack. It's enabled us to be leaps and bounds ahead of other companies our size as far as analytics tracking, distribution, analysis in our warehouse, and more. We use pretty much every piece of it--even the esoteric options like their embedded pixel API. It's such a core part of my day that I sometimes actually spend time daydreaming about new features I'd add to the product rather than actually doing my job :)

All I need now is for them to add the ability to push my events in real time to my Kafka cluster. (Please add that!)

[pkrein]

thanks jj! happy to get you into the kafka beta — shoot me an email peter at segment.

[dookahku]

So if I'm reading Segment's page correctly, Segment is a service that reads other API data and warehouses it into a single place to be read later?

I feel like I'm missing a lot of the picture. :)