105: Plausible Analytics, Elixir, and Privacy with Uku Taht

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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