James Cunningham

James Cunningham

Blogs Published by James Cunningham

Notice of (Internet) Address Change
Product Updates

Notice of (Internet) Address Change

As part of continuing projects to increase the reliability of sentry.io, the IP addresses associated with the service will be changing soon. These changes may…

How to Mutate Data in a System Designed for Immutable Data
Engineering

How to Mutate Data in a System Designed for Immutable Data

Sentry’s growth led to increased write and read load on our databases, and, even after countless rounds of query and index optimizations, we felt that our databases were always a hair’s breadth from the next performance tipping point or query planner meltdown. Increased write load also led to increased storage requirements (if you’re doing more writes, you’re going to need more places to put them), and we were running what felt like an inordinate number of servers with a lot of disks for the data they were responsible for storing. Here’s a look at how we attempted to understand which database system was right for us and how we adapted our approach when we encountered some unexpected challenges.

How to Mutate Data in a System Designed for Immutable Data
Product Updates

How to Mutate Data in a System Designed for Immutable Data

In our Field Guide series, we share challenges and successes we've encountered while exploring uncharted territory.

How to Get Stronger Consistency Out of a Datastore
Product Updates

How to Get Stronger Consistency Out of a Datastore

In our Field Guide series, we share challenges and successes we've encountered while exploring uncharted territory.

4 Ways the New York Times and Sentry Simplify their Tech
Product Updates

4 Ways the New York Times and Sentry Simplify their Tech

James Cunningham, Sentry's Ops Lead, recently spoke to Nick Rockwell, CTO at The New York Times (a Sentry customer), and Yonas Beshawred of Stackshare about simple solutions, React, and going serverless.

We're Officially Clouding
Product Updates

We're Officially Clouding

sentry.io moved to Google Cloud Platform in three months time.

Notice of (Internet) Address Change
Product Updates

Notice of (Internet) Address Change

Sentry is adding new IP addresses.

Certified under EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
Product Updates

Certified under EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

Sentry is now certified under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

Welcome Meredith Heller
Product Updates

Welcome Meredith Heller

Meredith Heller joins the engineering team.

Welcome Max Bittker
Product Updates

Welcome Max Bittker

Max Bittker joins the engineering team.

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