Jack Ellis
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Making the world’s fastest analytics even faster
In this blog post, I’m going to tell you how I migrated close to one billion database rows with zero downtime, achieved a ~30% query speed increase, and took Fathom to the next level.
Building the world’s fastest website analytics
For over a year, we’d been struggling to keep up with our analytics data growth. Fathom had been growing at the speed of light, with more and more people ditching Google Analytics, our data ingestion was going through the roof.
2020 Year in Review
Here’s my first ever year in review. It’s a deep dive into how 2020 was for me and it wasn’t easy to write.
Someone attacked our company
At the start of November, someone decided that they would try to attack and destroy our company. Here’s how we stopped them.
How to build a privacy-first software business
Data breaches occur every single day and people are getting tired of companies that don’t take their privacy seriously.
Hosted vs self-hosted website analytics
When deciding which analytics software to use for your website, one of the questions to be considered is whether you want to use a managed service or use self hosted analytics.
What happened when a customer got over 10m pageviews in a few hours?
What happened to our infrastructure when a customer got over 10 million page views in a few hours?
What tech stack does Fathom Analytics use?
When developers use a product like Fathom Analytics, the first question that comes to mind is “What tech stack is this company using?”. I personally love reading through company tech blog posts where they talk about their stacks.
Let’s talk about Friday and the Cloudflare outage
On Friday 17th July, the internet collapsed for 27 minutes due to a Cloudflare outage.
A 1 year review of Laravel Vapor
As one Laravel Vapor’s first customers, we wanted to walk you through a review of costs, scaling, reliability and more. Here’s what we’ve found after using Vapor for almost a year.