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Jack Ellis

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Jack Ellis

@JackEllis

Building usefathom.com since 2019. Fiercely independent and entirely self-funded. Sharing the journey.

Canada / UK

Joined May 2008

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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Jul 1, 2025
I've been building for the web since I was 13 years old and have been building Laravel apps since I was 17. These days, I run usefathom.com with a small, but mighty, team to power website analytics for over one million websites. I'm here to share my journey.
usefathom.com
Fathom Analytics: A Better Google Analytics Alternative
Ditch complex, intrusive analytics for Fathom - a better Google analytics alternative. Experience ease of use, forever data retention & full legal compliance.
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Aug 24, 2025
One of the best business books of all time. Tried and tested.
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
May 28, 2024
And this is why Cloudflare has been banned from being used at our company. Our experience wasn’t an isolated incident. Told you.
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Mar 19, 2024
TIL: Stripe deploys changes to it's core API services 400 times per day 🤯
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Sep 3, 2022
Senior engineers/lead developers: How the hell do you context switch between reviewing multiple PRs, everything else that comes with your job and then also working on complex projects yourself?
Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
May 18, 2024
I don't understand why everybody is being so negative about Slack automatically using our data to train their global AI models. I'm personally really excited about it and our team is too.
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Jan 10, 2023
I turned off Docker 60 days ago and my Macbook Air is still at 100% battery.
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
May 27, 2022
What's the most useful JavaScript package you've found? I'll go first.
Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
May 16, 2022
We run Laravel on infrastructure that can handle over 157 billion requests per month. Here’s my answer to the question: Does Laravel Scale?
Does Laravel Scale? - Fathom Analytics
From usefathom.com
Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Mar 25, 2024
I didn’t know this kind of speed was possible in PHP. The author starts off with an execution time of 25 minutes to handle one billion rows and then shows us how he got it down to 27 seconds. Absolutely remarkable.
Processing One Billion Rows in PHP!
From dev.to
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Nov 20, 2024
We've just finished load testing. 21 billion requests per month. 20ms response times. Zero errors. Each request writes to a database. Using PHP. How much is this going to cost us? Assume a peak of 10,000 req/s.
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Oct 20, 2025
Amazon Web Services should've self-hosted their own servers rather than using a cloud provider.
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Jul 26, 2025
We couldn’t live without AI code review.
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Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Mar 17, 2024
Is anyone using the Apple trackpad as their primary mouse?
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