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Latest Technical Articles
Architecture teardowns, benchmarks, and compliance guides.
Why zero-cookie analytics is the right default
Why consent banners degrade conversion by 28% and why anonymous mathematical minimization solves compliance permanently.
How to instrument a product without slowing it down
Legacy SDKs bundle 60KB+ of bloat. How we shrunk client telemetry to 1.8KB with non-blocking navigator.sendBeacon.
What agents need from your analytics API
Why LLM agents struggle with bloated JSON payloads and how structured Model Context Protocol (MCP) schemas bridge the gap.
The case for agent-readable analytics
Autonomous bots making product decisions need sub-15ms deterministic endpoints without visual UI scraping.
Why the $0.02/1M events claim was wrong
A deep financial breakdown of ClickHouse columnar storage vs legacy SaaS markups from Datadog and Sentry.
Event taxonomy: naming conventions that scale
Structured object-action patterns that keep telemetry clean across multi-team engineering organizations.
Migrating from GA4: a practical guide
Drop-in replacement for gtag('event') with zero backend changes and immediate consent banner removal.
Architecture: how Tracabit processes events
From edge CDN preflight to ClickHouse MergeTree partitions: tracing a telemetry payload lifecycle in under 4ms.
Data retention: what to keep, what to delete
Automated cryptographic purge schedules that keep your database fast while complying with GDPR Article 5.
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