How to Integrate MongoDB Atlas and Segment using MongoDB Stitch
It can be quite difficult tying together multiple systems, APIs, and third-party services. Recently, we faced this exact problem in-house, when we wanted to get data from Segment into MongoDB so we could take advantage of MongoDB’s native analytics capabilities and rich query language. Using some clever tools we were able to make this happen in under an hour – the first time around.
While this post is detailed, the actual implementation should only take around 20 minutes. I’ll start off by introducing our cast of characters (what tools we used to do this) and then we will walk through how we went about it.
The Characters
To collect data from a variety of sources including mobile, web, cloud apps, and servers, developers have been turning to Segment since 2011. Segment consolid...