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Product management insights: Measuring change

How do Product Managers measure change with testing and analytics? Learn what a panel of thoughtbot Product Management experts recommend.
Jared Turner, Jason Bailey, Bryce Morisako, Daniel Kim, Bethan Ashley & Victoria Bell
July 17, 2024
Detect anomalies in user behavior using Rails and PostgreSQL

You probably use some type of error monitoring software to notify you when an exception is raised in your application, but are you being notified when there is an anomaly in user behavior?
Steve Polito
September 29, 2022
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- Analytics
- Rails
Rails Server Side Analytics From Scratch

Learn how to track user events without sacrificing privacy and performance.
Steve Polito
March 28, 2022
- Rails
- Analytics
- Web
Instrumenting your Phoenix application using telemetry

Gain insight into events and performance measurements from your Phoenix application with a simple but scalable integration of telemetry.
Wil Hall
October 19, 2020
- Phoenix
- Elixir
- OTP
- Telemetry
- Analytics
Make small, data-driven performance improvements

Performance issues are a form of technical debt, and we must pay them off by making informed incremental improvements.
Wil Hall
October 15, 2020
Making Decisions and Keeping a Product Team Firing on all Cylinders

To ship early and often, a high-functioning product team should steer clear of these common decision-making pitfalls.
Mike Wenger
April 19, 2018
- Teams
- Process
- Productivity
- Analytics
- Playbook
Ten Years of the Giant Robots Blog

Today marks 10 years of writing, editing, and publishing this blog, Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots. Here’s a few things we did along the way to improve our happiness and the quality of the content.
Dan Croak, Joël Quenneville & Gabe Berke-Williams
November 6, 2015
- Analytics
- Automation
- Middleman
- Productivity
- Web
North Star Metric

It is difficult to prioritize product and growth work. Using one metric as your team’s North Star can help. How do you define, measure, and make decisions from it?
Dan Croak and Galen Frechette
December 25, 2014
Segment.io and Ruby

Use Segment.io’s Ruby library to track usage patterns within a Rails application.
Josh Clayton
July 30, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- Analytics
External Posts In Jekyll

If you contribute to more than one blog, you may want to have all of your...
Caleb Hearth
July 15, 2013
- Web
- Analytics
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