Blog post about Telemetry database and Metabase

[humitos]

Initial content for the blog post.

• I didn't dig up too much into analyzing each of the graph that I'm showing here. I think it's fine for now to show a generalized view of the usage we will do with this data.
• We can write a specific blog post for a particular graph if we want to in the near future. Analyzing and explaining what we have found.
• I left out a section called "Problems we've found so far" because I think it was too much for it. That section that talks about:
  • db replica and slow queries
  • materialized views to solve the problem of slow queries
  • not being able to order results by SemVer versions
  • inconsistent results and the creation for the "active project" concept
  • mention dblink as a potential solution for cross database queries

📚 Blog post preview 📚 : https://readthedocs-blog--177.org.readthedocs.build/knowing-more-about-ourselves/

Closes #175

[humitos]

@ericholscher

I went ahead and did a copy edit of the post and committed it back for ease of updating.

Thanks! I like the changes 👍🏼

I'd love to see a bit more clarity on exactly what data we're storing. Is it just Python packages & config file data?

Mainly, yes. I updated the bullet list with some more data we are storing. The code with the data structure is at https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/blob/46365964a12c180021942c9ae8e803ae25c2f265/readthedocs/telemetry/models.py#L22

We should probably share a couple of these at least. We don't need to go overboard, but this seems like a tease without any interpretation.

OK. I will try to add a small paragraph on each of the plots to describe how we are reading them or what they are being useful for so far.

If you already have that content drafted, you should throw a PR up with it so it doesn't get lost.

No. I started writing those bullets that I've put on the description and I realized it was good content, but it would make the general reading more complex without adding too much value for most of non-technical readers.

[humitos]

OK. I will try to add a small paragraph on each of the plots to describe how we are reading them or what they are being useful for so far.

@ericholscher I've done this! Let me know what you think. To me, it's ready to merge and publish it.