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Architecture & PrivacyAugust 14, 2026 · 6 min read

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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Latest Technical Articles

Architecture teardowns, benchmarks, and compliance guides.

Zero-cookie analytics illustration with privacy shield and clean data lines

Privacy by Design4 min read

Why zero-cookie analytics is the right default

Why consent banners degrade conversion by 28% and why anonymous mathematical minimization solves compliance permanently.

August 12, 2026Read full article

Lightweight SDK performance diagram with fast network transit

Performance5 min read

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.

August 9, 2026Read full article

AI Agent querying telemetry database via MCP protocol illustration

AI & Agents7 min read

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.

August 6, 2026Read full article

Autonomous AI agent inspecting conversion funnels illustration

AI & Agents5 min read

The case for agent-readable analytics

Autonomous bots making product decisions need sub-15ms deterministic endpoints without visual UI scraping.

August 2, 2026Read full article

Cost comparison ledger showing cloud compute efficiency

Infrastructure & Cost8 min read

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.

July 29, 2026Read full article

Event schema hierarchy and taxonomic structure diagram

Best Practices4 min read

Event taxonomy: naming conventions that scale

Structured object-action patterns that keep telemetry clean across multi-team engineering organizations.

July 24, 2026Read full article

Migration diagram showing seamless transition from GA4 to Tracabit

Privacy by Design6 min read

Migrating from GA4: a practical guide

Drop-in replacement for gtag('event') with zero backend changes and immediate consent banner removal.

July 19, 2026Read full article

End to end telemetry architecture diagram with edge CDN and columnar store

Performance9 min read

Architecture: how Tracabit processes events

From edge CDN preflight to ClickHouse MergeTree partitions: tracing a telemetry payload lifecycle in under 4ms.

July 15, 2026Read full article

Automated GDPR data purge and retention schedule visualization

Privacy by Design5 min read

Data retention: what to keep, what to delete

Automated cryptographic purge schedules that keep your database fast while complying with GDPR Article 5.

July 10, 2026Read full article

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