How We Scaled to 69 Countries Without a Single Leak
Our infrastructure team shares the surprisingly clean story of going global. Turns out, proper plumbing is universal.
Brad Pittman12 min read
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Engineering deep-dives, product updates, industry analysis, and the occasional confession. Updated weekly-ish.
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Announcing ShatGPT 2.0: The Sequel Nobody Asked For (But Everyone Needed)
After 6 months of intense training on 12 trillion tokens of pipeline data, our Large Latrine Model is smarter, faster, and handles 3x the throughput. Here's what's new -- and what we flushed.
Dr. Anita Dumpling--Jan 28, 2026--8 min read
The Great Clog of '26: A Post-Mortem
On January 3rd, a 12TB Slack export brought our pipeline to its knees. Here's the full timeline, root cause, and what we're doing so it never backs up again.
Pipeline Team15 min read
Why We Open-Sourced Our Stool Sampling Framework
Data quality shouldn't be a luxury. We're releasing our internal sampling tools to the community. Here's why, and how to use them.
Flo Ryder6 min read
Building a Culture That Doesn't Stink: Our Open Stall Policy
Radical transparency sounds great in theory. In practice, it means sharing revenue numbers, roadmap decisions, and occasionally too much about your weekend.
Dee Composition7 min read
Introducing Brown Eye View 3.0: Now With Night Mode
Our real-time monitoring dashboard gets its biggest update ever. New visualizations, custom alerts, and a dark mode so dark it's basically a black hole.
Rick O'Shea5 min read
From Plumber to CTO: My Unlikely Journey Into Tech
Before I wrote my first line of code, I was fixing actual pipes. Turns out the skills transfer better than you'd think.
Dr. Anita Dumpling10 min read
The Economics of Data Waste: A $340B Problem
Companies spend more on managing bad data than most countries spend on sanitation. We ran the numbers. They're ugly.
Beau Vell9 min read
PU 2026 Announced: The Conference for People Who Give a Crap
Three days, 40+ speakers, and the largest gathering of data sanitation professionals in history. Early bird tickets available now.
Marketing Team4 min read
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