Older blog posts are on Medium
Blog posts from 2010-2025 are over on our old Medium blog
In May 2025 we moved our blog to Substack 🎉. Our older blog posts published from 2010 to 2025 are archived over on https://medium.com/mixpaneleng/archive.
Our most popular blog posts
How we cut BigQuery costs 80% by hunting down costly queries
Under the Hood of Mixpanel’s Infrastructure
Automate Rotating Credentials using Terraform
Enforcing required checks on conditional CI jobs in a GitHub monorepo
Saving $30000 a month by improving Garbage Collection
My favorite series of blog posts on our engineering blog is:
In 2010 Mixpanel moved from Rackspace to AWS: We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace.
In 2011 Mixpanel moved off of AWS and on to on-prem SoftLayer: Why We Moved Off The Cloud.
In 2018 we moved from on-prem SoftLayer to Google Cloud Platform, where we’ve remained to this day!