engaugeai

Ah yes, I stand corrected. It is difficult to discuss these things sometimes as everyone has a slightly modified definition of "open-source", etc.

I guess I did not see a valid reason why this project would be used as a dependency in another software project/product (open-source or otherwise) so Polyform did not seem limiting.

Yes, great questions!

Polyform is an awesome set of open-source licenses: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/

The choice of license is perhaps ambitious / premature. It is chosen so that I can add whatever features to the open-source version being confident that some startup (or possible even larger company) could not attempt to productize it themselves.

Thanks! The list looks great! :)

To avoid dependencies it utilizes the filesystem for now storing raw data in CSV files but storing analytics (the information in the dashboard) as gob files.

This is part of why it is simpler to deploy. Just build and run without setting up a db.

> How well does it handle high traffic

It seems to handle things quite well. I couldn't give you exact figures, but I have done local low 4-figure rps testing and it didn't sweat all that much.

It is true that the raw data is stored in append-only CSV files. But the dashboard data / analytics data is stored in gob binary files. Very small and efficient.

The architecture is stream-based analytics instead of query-based.

Matomo is a pretty high standard of comparison, haha. So, thanks! Long term plans is to turn this into a self-hosted, single-binary Firebase alternative of some sorts.

For example, current features in testing are things like funnels, AB/N-Tests, etc. Then extend with any features that allow direct engagement actions for active users.

EDIT: another benefit might be performance of Go over PHP. But that may only show if you plan on hammering the service.

Great question! This allows you to control your own data for later custom analysis if you would like. It also allows you to track custom metrics / custom data from the backend so that it cannot be spammed.