[malisper]

I used to work at Heap, although I left 4 years ago

> Why use Postgres distributed cluster vs say an incremental store that supports real time data like Materialize

Materialize didn't exist when Heap was founded 10 years ago. Also, Materialize is dependent on knowing what queries you are running up front. Not to mention Heap is dealing with petabytes of data. Materialize only recently introduced multi-node support, so I would be surprised if it's being used at that kind of scale.

> Why use typescript at all?

Heap was originally written in CoffeeScript. It was the decision the semi-technical CEO made. Migrating to Typescript was the best option that allowed Heap to keep their existing codebase.

> Regarding audit tables, are you also keeping audit tables for user and events tables too?

No. Only the distributed metadata had audit logging when I was there

> Doesn’t the database come with audit tables baked into it?

No