Top updates from 2023
December 2023
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Introducing Notebooks for PostHog
Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog dramatically. You can read all about what’s changed and why in Cory’s post about the redesign . Suf…
November 2023
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How Adauris tracks performance, tailors activation and grew traffic by 500%
Adauris, an AI audio platform, replaced multiple analytics tools with PostHog to gain a unified view of product performance and user behavior. The team used PostHog’s session replays and group analyti…
October 2023
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Why we've launched PostHog user surveys
Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new pricing . Short version? Pricing is usage-based, with a free tier for small projects and an improved offer…
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How Webshare replaced Mixpanel, Hotjar, and FullStory with PostHog
Webshare, a proxy server provider, consolidated its analytics stack by replacing Mixpanel, Hotjar, and FullStory with PostHog in 2021. The move enabled 20 concurrent experiments, a 26% conversion lift…
September 2023
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How Purplewave reached a 25% response rate with PostHog surveys
Purple Wave, a heavy-duty equipment marketplace, improved its survey response rate from 14% to 25% by switching to PostHog’s in-app surveys. The team centralized feedback collection and analysis using…
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How we made feature flags faster and more reliable
Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both your customers and your customer's customers, since they rely on you to make sure their app work…
June 2023
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Redshift
We've written extensively comparing ClickHouse to other analytical databases, including Google BigQuery , Elastic , and Apache Druid . Most of those articles had the same gist – a tuned ClickHous…
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Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for multiple years now, we’ve built a lot of expertis…
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Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because... hedgehogs love SQL, probably? You can use Ho…
April 2023
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs BigQuery
Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data), but they have distinct philosophies and use cases. BigQuery is exceptional at handling complex business…
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What we built at our sun-kissed Aruba hackathon
Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've been to Italy, Portugal and Iceland. This year, we went to Aruba – a tiny, Caribbean island just …
March 2023
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch and ClickHouse are both open-source frameworks with advantages over conventional databases like PostgreSQL for performing tasks over lots of data, but they serve very different needs. El…
February 2023
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HogMail #22: Why do companies over-hire?"
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products and companies. We send it every two weeks. Signup …
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Our simpler goal: Help engineers to be better at product
One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We simplified our strategy recently. This post explains the context. The change Our mission h…
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake
Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake was fully managed, expensive, and broadly featured. ClickHouse was on-prem, open source, and speed-opt…
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HogMail #21: Avoiding the "Product Death Cycle"
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Sunsetting Kubernetes support for PostHog
We no longer support paid, open-source deployments and it is no longer possible to buy licenses for self-hosted versions - we instead recommend migrating to PostHog Cloud . We continue to develop for …
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot of different things. In some rough order I'v…
January 2023
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HogMail #20: Why do startups fail?
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The best Google Optimize alternatives for apps and websites
Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement on its website, Google said: "Google Optimize and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after Sept…
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