2024-09-29
First-party signals: naming events like you mean it
By Daeun Choi
signalstaxonomy
Good names encode object, action, and scope. Vague names like "engagement_event_v2" age poorly when analysts rotate.
Co-create a dictionary with engineering early. Marketing-only dictionaries drift within a quarter.
Add a deprecation note when you sunset an event. Ghost events confuse downstream teams for years.
KR teams often juggle English schema with Korean dashboards — pick where translation lives and keep it consistent.