Saving $30000 a month by improving Garbage Collection

Over the past few years, we’ve been focused on building a sustainable business at Mixpanel, and there’s a lot of emphasis on having sound unit economics. The engineering team plays a big part in this by periodically assessing our data center spend and removing inefficiencies. Earlier this year, we worked on one such project to improve our per-unit data storage costs.First, some background. Mixpanel is an event-centric product analytics tool. Over the past 12 months, we’ve seen a substantial incr...

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