426: How Your Data Model Shapes Your Product

The Bootstrapped Founder by Arvid Kahl

Dec 5, 202522:44Business

Jack Ellis recently shared that storing page views and custom events in separate database tables was his biggest mistake at Fathom Analytics. That got me thinking about my own data modeling decisions at Podscan—choices I...

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