Jack Ellis

Jack Ellis is a technical writer, teacher and software engineer with over 15 years in the game. Throughout his career, he’s built software for media companies, governments, insurance companies and international law firms.

Jack has taught thousands of developers how to scale their web applications and databases, and regularly shares his experiences on the Fathom Blog.

Today, he is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a Google Analytics Alternative focusing on GDPR compliance and simplicity.

Published posts (page 4)

I quit my job to work on Fathom Analytics full time

As 2020 came around, it was becoming clear to me that I couldn’t handle my full time job and run Fathom, so I had to leave.

April 27, 2020

Should I use Laravel Vapor?

You've heard of Vapor, you know that it's for serverless Laravel deployment, but what does it do?

March 25, 2020

Improve Laravel Vapor response time with prewarming

We take a look at the true cost of prewarming and why you shouldn't be scared of it

March 22, 2020

What is Serverless?

We've all heard the term serverless. But what is it and how does Vapor utilize it?

March 22, 2020

We rebuilt Fathom Analytics + moved to Laravel Vapor

In this article, we’re going to talk in-depth about our experience with Heroku and why we decided to move to Laravel Vapor.

November 29, 2019

Why we changed our pricing to focus on regular-sized businesses

The reasoning behind why we are nott interested in enterprise and are focusing on regular-sized businesses

November 24, 2019

GDPR compliant website analytics without cookies

How Fathom Analytics build a totally GDPR compliant website analytics without cookies.

July 21, 2019