Snowplow technical documentation

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The technical documentation reflects the Snowplow architecture, with six loosely-coupled sub-systems connected by five standardized data protocols/formats:

1A. Trackers

Trackers overview
ActionScript3 Tracker
Android Tracker
Arduino Tracker
CPP Tracker
Golang Tracker
Google AMP Tracker
iOS Tracker
Java Tracker
JavaScript Tracker
Lua Tracker
.NET Tracker
Node.js Tracker
PHP Tracker
Pixel Tracker
Python Tracker
Ruby Tracker
Scala Tracker
Unity Tracker

1B. Webhooks

Iglu webhook adapter
CallRail webhook adapter
MailChimp webhook adapter
Mandrill webhook adapter
Pagerduty webhook adapter
Pingdom webhook adapter
SendGrid webhook adapter
Urban Airship Connect webhook adapter

A. Snowplow tracker protocol

2. Collectors

Collectors overview
Cloudfront collector
Clojure collector (Elastic Beanstalk)
Scala Stream collector

B. Collector logging formats

3. Enrichment

Overview
EmrEtlRunner
Scalding-based Enrichment Process

C. Canonical Snowplow event model

4. Storage

Storage Overview
Storage in S3
Storage in Redshift
Storage in PostgreSQL
Storage in Infobright (deprecated)
The StorageLoader

D. Snowplow storage formats (to write)

5. Data modeling

Data modeling overview

6. Analytics

Analytics overview