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- Strategy overview
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- Objectives
- Roadmap
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- Values
- Goal setting
- Diversity and inclusion
- Communication
- Management
- Offsites
- Security
- Brand assets
- - Team structure
  - Why Small Teams
  - Team App East
  - Team App West
  - Team Platform
  - Team Ingestion
  - Team Infrastructure
  - Team Marketing
  - Team Website and Docs
  - Team People and Ops
  - Team Customer Success

- Compensation
- Share options
- Benefits
- Time off
- Spending money
- Progression
- Training
- Feedback
- Onboarding
- Offboarding
- - Product Manager ramp up
- Merch store
- - Overview
  - Engineering hiring
  - Marketing hiring
  - Operations hiring
  - Design hiring
  - Exec hiring

- - Developing locally
  - Tech stack
  - Project structure
  - How we review PRs
- - Frontend coding
  - Backend coding
- - Support hero
  - Feature ownership
  - Releasing a new version
  - Bug prioritization
- - Event ingestion explained
  - Making schema changes safely
  - How to optimize queries
  - How to write an async migration
  - How to run migrations on PostHog Cloud
  - Working with ClickHouse materialized columns
- - Deployments support
  - Working with cloud providers
  - Breaking glass to debug PostHog Cloud
- - Developing the website
  - MDX setup
- Shipping things, step by step
- Feature flags specification
- Setting up SSL locally
- Tech talks

- Overview
- Product metrics
- User feedback
- Scale features prioritization
- Paid features
- Releasing as beta

- Overview

- Overview
- Personas
- Testimonials
- Value propositions
- - Content & SEO
  - Sponsorship
  - Paid ads
  - Email
  - Press

- Growth strategy
- Customer support
- Inbound sales model
- Sales operations
  - Managing our CRM
  - YC onboarding
  - Demos
  - Billing
  - Who we do business with

Table of contents

Handbook

- Start here
- Meetings

- Story
- Team
- Investors

- Strategy overview
- Business model
- Objectives
- Roadmap
- Brand

- Culture
- Values
- Goal setting
- Diversity and inclusion
- Communication
- Management
- Offsites
- Security
- Brand assets
- - Team structure
  - Why Small Teams
  - Team App East
  - Team App West
  - Team Platform
  - Team Ingestion
  - Team Infrastructure
  - Team Marketing
  - Team Website and Docs
  - Team People and Ops
  - Team Customer Success

- Compensation
- Share options
- Benefits
- Time off
- Spending money
- Progression
- Training
- Feedback
- Onboarding
- Offboarding
- - Product Manager ramp up
- Merch store
- - Overview
  - Engineering hiring
  - Marketing hiring
  - Operations hiring
  - Design hiring
  - Exec hiring

- - Developing locally
  - Tech stack
  - Project structure
  - How we review PRs
- - Frontend coding
  - Backend coding
- - Support hero
  - Feature ownership
  - Releasing a new version
  - Bug prioritization
- - Event ingestion explained
  - Making schema changes safely
  - How to optimize queries
  - How to write an async migration
  - How to run migrations on PostHog Cloud
  - Working with ClickHouse materialized columns
- - Deployments support
  - Working with cloud providers
  - Breaking glass to debug PostHog Cloud
- - Developing the website
  - MDX setup
- Shipping things, step by step
- Feature flags specification
- Setting up SSL locally
- Tech talks

- Overview
- Product metrics
- User feedback
- Scale features prioritization
- Paid features
- Releasing as beta

- Overview

- Overview
- Personas
- Testimonials
- Value propositions
- - Content & SEO
  - Sponsorship
  - Paid ads
  - Email
  - Press

- Growth strategy
- Customer support
- Inbound sales model
- Sales operations
  - Managing our CRM
  - YC onboarding
  - Demos
  - Billing
  - Who we do business with

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Tech stack

Tech stack

Last updated: Mar 15, 2022

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Frontend
Backend
Testing
Additional tools

Note: This page refers to our main product repository, not our website.

Frontend

Web framework/library: React
State management: Redux + Kea
Layout/components: Ant Design

Backend

Framework: Django
Databases: PostgreSQL and ClickHouse
Task queue/event streaming: Redis and Apache Kafka
Task Worker: Celery

Testing

Frontend E2E tests: Cypress
Backend tests: Pytest and Django's built-in test suite

Additional tools

Application monitoring: Sentry
CI/CD: GitHub Actions
Containerization: Docker and Docker Compose
Linter (frontend): ESLint
Formatter (backend): Black

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