Our Achievements Over the Past Year

1. Expanded Our Technology Use:

   • Increased our usage of Temporal for powering warehouse syncs.
   • Transitioned destinations and transformations from Node virtual machines to our custom-built HogVM in the language, Hog.
   • Migrated high-volume services from Python to Rust.
   • Evaluated Warpstream and Pulsar as alternatives to Kafka.
   • Adopted C++ over Python to enhance SQL parsing speed.

2. Rapid Product Shipping and Feature Expansion:

   • Launched products like web analytics, mobile session replay, and our data warehouse.
   • Added dozens of new features to existing products.

Principles Guiding Our Technology Choices

• Technology as a Tool: Choose technologies that help build something people want without cumbersome procurement processes.
• Trust and Feedback Over Formal Processes: Empower product teams to own the entire process.

PostHog prioritizes adopting new technologies when facing urgent problems like excessive costs or scaling challenges. Decisions are made asynchronously through a request for comments (RFC) process and the team continuously evaluates their technology stack to make sure it aligns with their long-term goals.

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