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How we’re making PostHog deployments easier

Mar 22, 2022 by Harry Waye, Guido Iaquinti

How we’re making PostHog deployments easier

Mar 22, 2022 by Harry Waye, Guido Iaquinti
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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…
The secrets of PostHog query performance
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…
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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…
I used to think you don't need product people. I was wrong.
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…
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Feb 11, 2022 by Rick Marron
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Oct 26, 2021 by Karl-Aksel Puulmann
This post shows how a good CI solution can automate your engineering workflow and help you focus on actual challenges instead of chores. PostHog does the same for your product workflow: we're a self-hostable product analytics platform that helps you…
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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 Digital Ocean to promote open source projects and foster the overall open 
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020
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