Product Analytics Group

Maintained by:

Christopher "Leif" Lefelhocz

@clefelhocz1

Vision

The Product Analysis Group is part of the Analytics section.

How we work:

We work in accordance with our GitLab values.
We work transparently with everything public.
We have a bias for action.
Everyone can contribute to our work.

Learn more about what we work on and the problems we are solving on our public direction page.

Team members

Person	Role
Allen Cook	Senior Backend Engineer, Analyze:Product Analytics
Dennis Tang	Engineering Manager, Analyze:Product Analytics
Elwyn Benson	Senior Frontend Engineer, Analyze:Product Analytics
Halil Coban	Senior Backend Engineer, Analyze:Product Analytics
Jiaan Louw	Senior Frontend Engineer, Analyze:Product Analytics
Max Woolf	Senior Backend Engineer, Analyze:Product Analytics
Robert Hunt	Senior Frontend Engineer, Analyze:Product Analytics
Sam Kerr	Group Manager, Product, Analytics

Onboarding engineer? Start here.

Welcome! Start by familiarizing yourself with the developer onboarding guide. After that you'll need to set up a few things specific to the Product Analytics team.

Docker

We use Docker to run our development environment. You can find installation instructions here. Free alternatives such as Rancher are not fully compatible with our development stack.

Docker is not expensable, so you will need to open an access request to get a valid license. Further instructions are here.

DevKit

Our internal development kit is a Docker Compose project which will run the entire product analytics stack comprised of:

Event tracker (Jitsu)
Clickhouse
Cube

It is pre-configured and the repository contains all the required information and steps to get started.

Feature flags

Your GDK should also be running with a valid Ultimate license, and you should enable the following flags in your GDK environment:

Communication

Slack

We have dedicated Slack channels for the Product Analytics group, #g_analyze_product_analytics for general posts and #g_analyze_product_analytics_daily for our daily asynchronous stand-ups.

Meetings

Our weekly sync meeting is usually at 14:00UTC on Tuesdays. All GitLab team members are welcome to join. Attendance is not mandatory and the meeting is recorded on GitLab Unfiltered. You can find the meeting link in the #g_analyze_product_analytics channel.
All analytics meetings can be found by searching for the Analytics Shared meeting room in Google calendar and all GitLab team members are welcome to join.