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Published on September 29, 2021

Why we ditched DynamoDB

After being very publicly excited about DynamoDB for over a year, we’ve now completely ditched it.

Jack Ellis
Published on August 17, 2021

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.

Jack Ellis
Published on August 16, 2021

How Kim Kardashian turned a bootstrapped business into a venture-backed company

Why Carrd turned away from their bootstrapping roots and raised millions of dollars.

Paul Jarvis
Written by Paul Jarvis
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Published on July 27, 2021

New features in Fathom Analytics (video)

Fathom is simple, privacy-focused website analytics (a Google Analytics alternative). Here are a few new features we’ve added recently.

Paul Jarvis
Written by Paul Jarvis
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Published on July 13, 2021

Fathom retains IP addresses temporarily for security. How do you protect that data?

Here’s a question we recently got from a customer regarding Fathom being a privacy-first company and how that relates to the data we collect for our analytics

Jack Ellis
Published on July 7, 2021

Let’s make surveillance-based advertising illegal

Fathom and other privacy-focused companies signed the following letter on Wednesday, July 7th, to EU and US regulators to encourage them to take action during legislative sessions and any relevant privacy discussions.

Paul Jarvis
Written by Paul Jarvis
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Published on June 29, 2021

Something’s new in Fathom… everything!

Check out our new release, full of features and refinements

Paul Jarvis
Written by Paul Jarvis
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Published on June 21, 2021

Privacy Stories: The Markup

The Markup is proving that a newsroom can be unbiased in its reporting, share how they came to the conclusions they’re making, and build awareness around complicated but essential issues.

Paul Jarvis
Published on June 2, 2021

Why we prioritize support over sales in our SaaS business

We put significant effort into customer support: not just answering emails quickly and respectfully, but making sure we understand the problem to either solve it or figure out how we can do better in the future (building more features, better documentation, etc.)

Paul Jarvis
Published on June 2, 2021

What is Google FLoC, and why it’s bad for your digital privacy

FLoC is a method to collect, summarize and sell your recent internet browsing activity.

Paul Jarvis

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