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![The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session recording – a screen-recording-like service that tracked a user’s activity. Typically, session recording (SR) was popular with marketers and product…]()
Aug 31, 2022 by Mathew Pregasen
![When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing deprecated solutions out, ensuring security, keeping track of dependencies… Whew. And that's before…]()
Jul 5, 2022 by Michael Matloka
![When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a PostgreSQL datastore. Troubleshooting was easy, while the low barrier of entry meant fast adoption and more feedback on where to take the product. This…]()
Mar 22, 2022 by Harry Waye, Guido Iaquinti
![We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users should have a smooth experience exploring their product data - including not waiting minutes for queries to load. In this post, I’m going to break down…]()
Mar 22, 2022 by Karl-Aksel Puulmann
![In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need migrations to update them. However, not all migrations are made equal. Some are simple, others are complex…]()
Mar 18, 2022 by Yakko Majuri
![When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii) talk to customers. Hiring a product person felt like it would slow us down. Engineers on our team would speak to our users (also engineers) - surely…]()
Feb 18, 2022 by James Hawkins
![Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see how real users use your website, mouse clicks and all. It's really cool and addictive (give it a…]()
Feb 11, 2022 by Rick Marron
![I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my first two projects as a Software Engineer at PostHog . In it, I lay out a five-step approach for how I own projects. One common theme that stood out…]()
Feb 4, 2022 by Neil Kakkar
![Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part of PostHog, as it is responsible for event ingestion. However, it isn’t called “ingestion server” because it was originally designed to run plugins. So…]()
Nov 16, 2021 by Yakko Majuri
![ClickHouse supports speeding up queries using materialized columns to create new columns on the fly from existing data. In this post, I’ll walk through a query optimization example that's well-suited to this rarely-used feature. Consider the…]()
Oct 26, 2021 by Karl-Aksel Puulmann
![Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an initiative led by DigitalOcean to promote open source projects and foster the overall open
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Oct 1, 2020
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Jul 23, 2020