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Great question! You are correct, these methods would be equivalent w.r.t. tree "shape". The problem emerges downstream. In our shared database, we reply on the fact that user IDs a…

That is an interesting idea. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure - I personally do not have much experience with graph databases (mostly focused on Postgres). We are doing some mo…

Woah these look great! Sad I didn't encounter them earlier. Our team is actively working on improvements in this part of our data infrastructure (hence this project & blog post) so…

Yes! You are correct. This ensures that we are able to maintain a cohesive view of the entire "user" across all their devices, browsers etc (so long as the Heap customer has a meth…

> Hopefully this data stucture can be extended to completely remove every bit of tracking information collected about a user, so that it can comply with GDPR and respect privacy Th…

And great question! The hashing heuristic is a bit of a cute trick and I definitely glossed over it a bit in the post. I'll try to elaborate a bit more here... > most hashes ... ar…

Hey, author here! I've been working on infrastructure and database-y things at Heap for the last couple years, ranging from improving Postgres performance and availability to build…