Sprint - May 27 to June 7, 2024

[mariusandra]

Global Sprint Planning

3 things that might take us down

Team sprint planning

For your team sprint planning copy this template into a comment below for each team.

# Team ___

**Support hero:** ___

## Retro

<!-- Grab the high and low priority items from last time and add whether that item was completed or not -->

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## Hang over items from previous sprint

<!-- For each item, decide to re-prioritise (and add below) or deprioritise -->

- Item 1. prioritised/deprioritise

## OKR

1. OKR, status (red/yellow/green) and action points if yellow/red


### High priority

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### Low priority / side quests

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[pauldambra]

Team A nightmare on CSS parsing street

Support hero: @manoel

• bank holiday monday
• manoel out a few days
• paul out for week 1

items from previous sprint

High priority

• 🟡 hiring (@pauldambra)
  • handed mobile engineer tech screens to Manoel - it was silly me doing them
  • three more FS engineer tech screens booked
• hogql filters (@daibhin with @pauldambra supporting)
  • this is out for a percentage of traffic
  • it is at least twice as slow
  • person properties are expressed as two joins between events and persons/pdi
  • repeated parsing is ~30% of processing time
• 💚 Replace posthog-java with posthog (The core of the Android SDK written in Kotlin) issue. (@marandaneto )
  • on course - Neil and I being mean :p

OKR

1. OKR, status (red/yellow/green) and action points if yellow/red

• 🟡 quality and consolidation
  • mobile replay open beta
    • out free and being promoted in onboarding
  • replay captures every site
    • David working with rrweb to improve CSS parsing, already a major reduction in issues as a result
  • people can find the valuable recordings
    • queued behind the others
• 🟡 Error tracking MVP
  • need to decide if we start
• 🟡 Hire at least 2 amazing colleagues

High priority

• hiring (@pauldambra)
• hogql filters performance (@pauldambra )
  • intercept person property queries and convert them to subquery not join (housewatch thinks 14x faster)
  • can't roll out as is
• users like the screenshot option for android - so add it to iOS (@marandaneto)
• continuing CSS issues as most important customer problem (@daibhin)

Low priority / side quests

• mobile usage report stuff @pauldambra
• persistent replay queue in posthog-js @pauldambra
• Remove last of the antd components @daibhin
• masking text in the screenshot images on mobile (@marandaneto)
• improved UI filtering using HogQL (@daibhin)
  • e.g. can we use one set of filters everywhere?

[EDsCODE]

Team Data Shack

OKR Q2 2024

Objective

Release data warehouse to everyone

• Key Results:
  • Integration first experience
    • schemas are reliable
    • modeling of each integration is clear
    • Good automatic roll up views and joins
    • Wizard to onboard people
  • Establish a solid pattern to build integrations
  • Complete data warehouse experience in the rest of the app (insights, feature flags, experiments)

James as a Service -> Clickhouse as a Service

• Key Results:
  • Better Visibility
    • Regularly testing backups
    • Monitoring/alerting
    • Mutations
    • Moves
  • Management
    • Managing/killing mutations
  • Self Serve
    • Schema design feedback (James non blocking
    • Schema management
  • Automation
    • Replace/Upgrade replicas
    • Upgrading to 24.04
    • Disk configs

Retro

• offsite

Product

• making the UI changes to move sources into pipeline 3000
• Hackathon
• [x] logic refactors and cleanup @Gilbert09
• [x] progressing through https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/22001 @EDsCODE

Infra

• [x] Hackathon
• [x] CH8 and CH7 drama (replicas were killed and re-replicated for sharded_events)
• [x] Manually run Deletes!

High priority

Product

• [ ] complete https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/22001 (decide on pricing, UI changes, instrumentation) @EDsCODE
• [ ] Warehouse props in breakdown filters
• [ ] warehouse props in feature flags and experiments

Infra

• [ ] Fix delete code path
• [ ] Move parts around so last 3 months of data are on NVME on US
• [ ] Upgrade EU CH version Must complete
• [ ] Cluster instance upgrades and config cleanups

[mariusandra]

Team Internal Tools / CDP / Hog / QL

High priority

• HogQL-related performance fixes

  • Session replay filters
  • Product analytics "person properties into subquery"
    • https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/22427

• Figure out what to build

  • and in what order
  • and get going.

Low priority / side quests

• Read about compilers and type systems.

[benjackwhite]

Team Infra

Hang over items from previous sprint

1. 🟡 CDP v1.5 - Webhooks destination filtered by Action @benjackwhite

• Just waiting on merges now

3. 🟡 Get as many other log sources into Loki as possible (Kubernetes audit logs, Cloudtrail, SQL/Clickhouse queries, Metabase, HogQL queries) @danielxnj

• K8s audit logs, cloudtrail ✅
• Metabase - just needs a license
• HogQL - needs our own implementation

4. 🔴 Get more useful auditing logs out of Django (auth attempts, access logs, HogQL queries) @benjackwhite
5. 🔴 Get Metabase setup to tick the audit boxes (auditing, SSO etc.) @frankh @danielxnj
6. 🟢 Continue with Soc2 Audit follow up @danielxnj
7. 🟢 Fix all remaining High/medium pen test outcomes @benjackwhite
8. 🟢 Offsite!

OKR

1. 💪 Deploy with confidence 🟢

• Finalize our Canary Deploy process 🟡

5. 🚨 Improved alerting and monitoring 🟢

• SIEM work has made this a priority

6. 🔒 Deeper Security 🟡
7. 💰 Continued cost control 🟢

High priority

• Daniel - vacation
• Metabase setup and auditting / SSO / move to internal ELB @frankh
• Reverse proxy with release @frankh
• Investigate canary deploy rollback improvements @frankh

[raquelmsmith]

Team Growth

Retro

Retro items

Offsite sprint!

High priority

• @raquelmsmith
  • [x] Get automatic provisioning feature gating out
  • [ ] Personless events pricing UI on posthog.com and pricing tables
• @xrdt
  • [x] Move remaining bits of sync_invoices to celery
  • [x] Finish PRs for updating unsubscription flow with auto-payment of outstanding invoices
  • [ ] Testing compare_prices
  • [ ] Billing admin improvements - make plans_map a dropdown of selects, feature_override reason
• @zlwaterfield
  • [x] Finish the 6 project limit migration
  • [x] Migrating all enterprise customers to free teams addon + documenting for CS
  • [x] Looking into other revenue edge cases in reporting
  • [ ] Planning for subscribing to all products next week

Q2 Goals

✅=finished 🟡=in progress 🔴=won't finish

1. ⚪ Create a flow in product analytics onboarding to fill out a dashboard template using actions (Raquel)
2. 🟡 Simplify our subscription flows (Zach, supported by Raquel)
3. 🟡 Launch pricing changes (Bianca, Raquel)
   • 🟡 Personless events - will help us reach more customers at an affordable price
   • Data warehouse - it's becoming pretty useful, we should charge for it
   • Session replay - we can reduce costs to improve retention and reach more people

This sprint

High priority

• @raquelmsmith
  • [ ] UI for personless events
    • [x] App billing page
    • [x] App pricing tables
    • [x] Onboarding instructions
    • [ ] posthog.com pricing tables
  • [ ] Launch personless events / project management
  • [ ] Referrals: add/edit referrer and redeemer
• @xrdt
  • [ ] Deprecate available_features
  • [x] Support multiple org owners
    • Can only invite at your perm level or lower
    • Can set membership level when inviting
  • [x] Billing admin improvements - make plans_map a dropdown of selects
  • [x] Doc for how to use multiple stripe customers to a single django admin customer
    • Not standalone doc
  • [ ] Maintenance
    • [ ] Track celery queue depth for billing workers
    • [x] Check whether billing limits are being applied correctly - see https://posthog.slack.com/archives/C043VJ93L3B/p1715964424235799
    • [x] Check whether mrr is being forecasted correctly for upcoming invoices
      • [ ] Add a field to the DB model for the current accumulated total so we can more easily debug future issuesreason
• @zlwaterfield
  • [ ] Finish teams addon changes
    • remove old teams plan
    • make sure enterprise customers are on proper plans
    • Add includes team plan to enterprise plan in default config
  • [x] Finish startup plan analysis
    • how many credits are being used each month
    • fix the starting/ending balance bug
  • [ ] Stripe audit stuff
    • mismatch subscriptions script
    • emailing users for failed payments
  • [ ] Start subscribing to all products
  • Side quests:
    • [ ] Teams annual plan

[robbie-c]

Team Web Analytics

Support hero: n/a

Next sprint I'm off 5 days, 1 day for bank holiday and 4 for vacation

Retro

Sickonos + reprioritisation meant that I didn't get much done of what was in hindsight quite an ambitious sprint:

• 🟢 finish this spike on uuidv7s
• 🔴 write the SQL for the new sessions table that uses it
• 🔴 write and run a proper backfill job
• 🔴 switch the hogql sessions table over to the new table
• 🔴 make sure docs / sdks make it clear enough that session_ids should be a UUIDv7
• 🔴 then roll out session properties elsewhere in the app
• 🟡 mop up personless events, TBD(mykonos) what this involves

OKR

1. Make querying fast enough for large customers
2. Do personless events work where necessary (unknown amount of work)
3. Iterate on customer feedback
4. Product management work

High priority

• test left join changes on persons table
• run personless upgrading test
• write the SQL for the new sessions table that uses it

Low priority

• write and run a proper backfill job
• make sure docs / sdks make it clear enough that session_ids should be a UUIDv7

[Twixes]

Team Analisi del Prodotto

Support hero: @Twixes

Retro

• Some of us had a great offsite
• Others didn't but that's okay
• We got to a bunch of issues in insights

Hang over items from previous sprint

• Bugs in insights
• Project environments

OKR

No major change here.

• HogQL-based querying

  • Convert the remaining legacy queries to HogQL and release to public (Thomas, Julian, Marius)
    • 🟢 Insights – rolled out, although fixes needed to be rock-solid
    • ⚪ Cohorts
  • Remove legacy querying backend (Thomas, Julian)
    • 🟠 Clean up or rewrite dashboardLogic 👈 this sprint
    • 🟠 Convert filters to query (insights, notebooks, activity log, experiments)
  • Missing Product Analytics features (Thomas, Julian)
    • ⚪ Breakdowns (multiple) in literally everything
    • 🟠 Make a list based on GitHub issues from customer requests…
    • ⚪ Fix those issues
  • Missing HogQL features (Tom, Marius)
    • 🟠 Type system, JSON 👈 Data Warehouse is on this
    • ⚪ Missing things when building funnels

• Querying and processing performance (Thomas, Julian)

  • Global performance overview dashboards
    • ⚪ Insights
    • ⚪ Exports
    • ⚪ Cohort recalculations
  • Query request tracing
    • ⚪ Possibly query runner Python optimizations
    • ⚪ Exports improvements
  • ⚪ Identify top 5 query optimizations in terms of impact

• Artificial Hog / Post Intelligence (Michael)

  • ⚪ Ask a question to get a magical insight (aware of your taxonomy)
  • ⚪ Figure out infra for upgrading queries and models
  • ⚪ Product-wide framework for opting into sharing with OpenAI

• Activation (side quest: Michael)

  • ⚪ Michael to work with Growth to identify optimizations to getting started with Product Analytics 👈 pending the product manager hire a bit

High priority

• Fix the most painful bugs reported by users: (we're on the way down with the pile of open tickets, currently at 90) @all-of-product-analytics
  • Related HogQL-based insights (actor modals, exports, caching reliability)
  • Related to complexity in dashboardLogic
• Clean up the legacy ways of tracking performance

Low priority / side quests

• Loading Bar™ @aspicer
• Ensure live events in the Activity view are shipped @Twixes
• Project environments on hold (also: need to figure out what team should that live in)

[tiina303]

Team pipeline (WIP)

• Tomas joining Data warehouse - collab with Jams on deletes?

• Ted - TBD

• Xavier and Brett are off this week, so we'll narrow down the details next week.

Items:

• customer.io plugin
• Hog
• PG running out of cpu

[neilkakkar]

Team Feature Success

Support hero: @jurajmajerik
Days off: Juraj: 5 days Phani: 0 days Dylan: 0 days Neil: 2 days

Retro

• Offsite hackathon + wrapup - @jurajmajerik ✅ / @neilkakkar - off sick, this will happen some other time.
• Surveys popup refactor - @jurajmajerik -- caught up on support instead, lots pending after offsite
• Make sure Dylan's onboarding goes well - @neilkakkar ✅
• Implement the RFC for repeatable surveys - https://github.com/PostHog/meta/pull/203 + some small bugs - @Phanatic 🔄
  • mostly done
• some excellent survey bugfixes - @dmarticus ✅
  • https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/22496 and some more in the queue

Hang over items from previous sprint

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OKRs

1. Make sure feature flags can handle 10x current scale
2. Polish new experiments UI & collect feedback
3. Add most requested surveys functionality

High priority

• Finish up repeated surveys - @Phanatic
• next start on Event based triggers for surveys - https://github.com/PostHog/product-internal/pull/556 - @Phanatic
• https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/18102 - @dmarticus
• NPS survey result fix (ex: this survey ) - @dmarticus
• Surveys popup refactor - @jurajmajerik
• https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/22131 continue on rewrite - @neilkakkar

Low priority / side quests / maybe Neil will get to this next year

• Temporal queues for feature success - @neilkakkar
• Setup instrumentation for flip-flopping problem of experiment significance - @neilkakkar