Glad different types of seats is working for you!

We started down that path with free billing seats. But in the end, per seat just never felt right.

As a business owner (I have some other companies) my favorite software to pay for was everything that didn't charge per seat. I'd like my own software to be the same and thus the change.

Correct there are some limits still. At some point you have to make a decision, but at least not with every seat. The hope is to keep increasing those limits.

I'm the founder. Appreciate it.

The files aren’t stored in the database. This is just a record of a download. Things like ip, user agent, which episode, etc.

Solving the dilemma of warming up a "cold" cache cluster via feature flags without causing chaos.

Correct. We also had two other products, which they sold within a year of acquisition (and we didn't buy back).

The only thing that made it an acquisition more than an acquihire is that we had products that were generating revenue, so they couldn't just give us jobs and regular options packages.

Our employees started at GitHub with regular options packages, but Steve and I got a little more because we were the owners.

We chose kestrel mostly just from usage/familiarity. We've been satisfied with it, but are currently researching/testing kafka.

Are you guys using either of them elsewhere or just for analytics?

We use Kestrel for our internal hooks delivery system also (based on jnunemaker's suggestion).

Yep, http://gaug.es was built from the ground up as an API. That definitely made the API better in the long run.

Permissions fixed. Sorry!

The article starts with reporting/graphing but then goes on to how I analyzed those reports/graphs to actually fix an issue.