News and updates from Fathom
Every few weeks we publish articles about Fathom Analytics news and features, as well as topics of interest about Laravel, and the changing privacy-focused business landscape. Old-school? Grab the RSS.
Written by humans, for humans. Every post is written by hand, without AI.
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Does targeted digital advertising work?
Does targeted digital advertising, including personalized ads that we're shown via Google or Facebook, actually work?
How to build a privacy-first software business
Data breaches occur every single day and people are getting tired of companies that don’t take their privacy seriously.
Hosted vs self-hosted website analytics
When deciding which analytics software to use for your website, one of the questions to be considered is whether you want to use a managed service or use self hosted analytics.
What happened when a customer got over 10m pageviews in a few hours?
What happened to our infrastructure when a customer got over 10 million page views in a few hours?
An update on the Schrems II judgment/ruling
As per 17 August, there is still no unified conclusion or advice on how to manage it on a practical level.
Schrems II Judgement (Privacy Shield invalidation)
The Court of Justice of the European Union (EUCJ) has ruled on the Privacy Shield certification for US businesses, effectively making it invalid as of July 16, 2020.
What tech stack does Fathom Analytics use?
When developers use a product like Fathom Analytics, the first question that comes to mind is “What tech stack is this company using?”. I personally love reading through company tech blog posts where they talk about their stacks.
Let’s talk about Friday and the Cloudflare outage
On Friday 17th July, the internet collapsed for 27 minutes due to a Cloudflare outage.
SaaS lessons shared on the Framework podcast
Last month I joined Tom Creighton and Robert Hayes on the Framework show to chat about how Fathom Analytics works as a privacy-focused and fully self-funded software company.
A 1 year review of Laravel Vapor
As one Laravel Vapor’s first customers, we wanted to walk you through a review of costs, scaling, reliability and more. Here’s what we’ve found after using Vapor for almost a year.