105: Plausible Analytics, Elixir, and Privacy with Uku Taht
Uku Taht shares how Plausible Analytics provides opensource analytics data that respects visitor's privacy. It’s a simple Phoenix app by a small team (3 people) that are delivering big things.
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Show Notes
We learn about Plausible Analytics, a privacy respecting alternative to Google Analytics that is cloud or self-hostable, OpenSource and written in Elixir! Uku Taht shares how he founded the company, the mission he is on, and what he prioritizes. The company practices a “transparent by default” approach. This means they share a lot about what’s going on, this includes how they recently reached $1m ARR, some of their growing pains, and dealing with the weight of being “the one who has to fix things.” We end with a candid discussion about wellness in our profession and how when we are too close to the problems, we become blind to our own successes. A great, transparent conversation with Uku!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/105
Elixir Community News
- https://2022.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2022 - Aug 30 - Sep 2 in Denver, CO. Call for proposals due July 2nd
- https://2022.elixirconf.com/registration – Early bird tickets are on sale
- https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio/status/1537502784790085634 – CodeBEAM America (November) is accepting training ideas for their upcoming conference.
- https://hexdocs.pm/req/changelog.html#v0-3-0 – Req v0.3 released with a new API
- https://hexdocs.pm/req/changelog.html#plugins – List of available Req plugins - req_easyhtml, req_s3, req_hex, req_github_oauth
- https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1537405584710029313 – Sean Moriarity shared a major milestone! The public release of Axon and AxonONNX.
- https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/102 – Recent interview with Sean Moriarity about this work.
- https://twitter.com/elixirweekly/status/1538082201212006400 – IntelliJ IDE gets updated Elixir plugin, v13.1.0
- https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1538908870743101440 – NimbleLZ4, for performing LZ4 lossless compression, released with the help of Rustler Precompiled
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
Discussion Resources
- https://github.com/plausible/analytics
- https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ/status/1532265765042376704
- https://plausible.io/about
- http://elixirkoans.io/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7cLUygMeI
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
- https://clickhouse.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing
- https://github.com/plausible/clickhouse_ecto
- https://plausible.io/blog/you-probably-dont-need-a-single-page-app
- https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ/status/1532265765042376704 – Announced they reached a revenue milestone
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/ukutaht – Uku on Twitter
- https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ – Plausible HQ on Twitter
- https://fosstodon.org/@plausible – Mastodon
- https://github.com/ukutaht/ – Uku on Github
- https://github.com/plausible – Plausible on Github
- https://plausible.io/blog – Plausible Blog
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- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
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