Engineering & Product Blog

Technical deep-dives on privacy-first analytics, self-hosting infrastructure, Core Web Vitals, and building open-source developer tools.

March 25, 20264 min read

Session Replay Without Cookies: How Xine Records User Journeys Privately

A technical deep-dive into how Xine implements session replay functionality without cookies, without PII collection, and with full privacy compliance.

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March 22, 20264 min read

Self-Hosting Web Analytics with Docker and PostgreSQL

A step-by-step guide to deploying Xine, a privacy-first analytics platform, using Docker Compose with PostgreSQL on your own server.

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March 20, 20263 min read

Privacy-First Analytics: Full GDPR Compliance Without Cookie Banners

How cookie-free analytics platforms like Xine achieve full GDPR and CCPA compliance without requiring intrusive consent popups or cookie banners.

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March 18, 20264 min read

Core Web Vitals Monitoring: A Developer's Complete Guide

Learn how to monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals (LCP, FCP, CLS, INP, TTFB) with real-user data using Xine's built-in performance tracking.

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March 15, 20264 min read

The Death of the Cookie Banner

A technical exploration of how modern analytics tools track users accurately without client-side cookies, and why cookie consent banners are becoming obsolete.

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March 12, 20264 min read

Open Source Analytics: Why Transparency Matters for Trust

Why open-source analytics tools build more trust than proprietary alternatives, and how Xine's transparent approach benefits developers and end users alike.

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March 1, 20264 min read

Why We Built Xine Analytics

The story behind our decision to build a privacy-first, cookie-free analytics platform from scratch—and why we chose PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and Next.js as our foundation.

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