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How we build Tracabit, and what we've learned about measuring products without tracking people.
We built a privacy-first analytics engine with zero cookies.
Cookie banners are a symptom of broken data collection architecture. Here is how we engineered non-reversible passive hashing, edge Geo-IP extraction, and deterministic session deduplication without storing a single client cookie.
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Privacy by Design, August 12, 2026
Why zero-cookie analytics is the right default
Why consent banners degrade conversion by 28% and why anonymous mathematical minimization solves compliance permanently.
4 min read
Performance, August 9, 2026
How to instrument a product without slowing it down
Legacy SDKs bundle 60KB+ of bloat. How we shrunk client telemetry to 1.8KB with non-blocking navigator.sendBeacon.
5 min read
AI & Agents, August 6, 2026
What agents need from your analytics API
Why LLM agents struggle with bloated JSON payloads and how structured Model Context Protocol (MCP) schemas bridge the gap.
7 min read
AI & Agents, August 2, 2026
The case for agent-readable analytics
Autonomous bots making product decisions need sub-15ms deterministic endpoints without visual UI scraping.
5 min read
Infrastructure & Cost, July 29, 2026
Why the $0.02/1M events claim was wrong
A deep financial breakdown of ClickHouse columnar storage vs legacy SaaS markups from Datadog and Sentry.
8 min read
Best Practices, July 24, 2026
Event taxonomy: naming conventions that scale
Structured object-action patterns that keep telemetry clean across multi-team engineering organizations.
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Privacy by Design, July 19, 2026
Migrating from GA4: a practical guide
Drop-in replacement for gtag('event') with zero backend changes and immediate consent banner removal.
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Performance, July 15, 2026
Architecture: how Tracabit processes events
From edge CDN preflight to ClickHouse MergeTree partitions: tracing a telemetry payload lifecycle in under 4ms.
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Privacy by Design, July 10, 2026
Data retention: what to keep, what to delete
Automated cryptographic purge schedules that keep your database fast while complying with GDPR Article 5.
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