Engineering
Self Identifying JavaScript Source Maps: The Case for Debug IDs
What is a self identifying file, what are debug IDs and why do we want a fundamental change in the web ecosystem for source maps.
Engineering
How we reduced CI time by 35% with Nx Caching
Sentry is a very fast-moving company. In just one month we merged 165 pull requests from 19 authors and changed over 800 files, with a total of over 22,000 additions and almost 10,000 deletions. By updating to Lerna 6 with Nx caching, we were able to reduce our CI run times by about 35%.
Engineering
Treat Performance Like A Feature
Implementing the right processes and tooling is key to bring your application’s performance from ‘adequate’ to ‘delightful’. Find out how to treat performance as a feature.
Engineering
Sentry’s Frontend Tests: Migrating from Enzyme to React Testing Library
With over 700 pull requests a month, making sure Sentry's test suite runs quicky is extremely important. This post will talk about our journey converting our component tests from Enzyme to React Testing Library that took almost 18 months, 17 engineers and almost 5000 tests.
Engineering
Getting Started with Jetpack Compose
Jetpack Compose, a new declarative UI toolkit by Google made for building native Android apps, is rapidly gaining traction. The main advantage of using Jetpack Compose is that it allows you to write UI code that is more concise and easier to understand. This leads to improved maintainability and reduced development time. The main advantage of using Jetpack Compose is that it allows you to write UI code that is more concise and easier to understand. This leads to improved maintainability and reduced development time.
Engineering
Common Errors in Next.js and How to Resolve Them
Debugging Next.JS most of the time can be quick and painless, but not all of the time. Explore common Next.js errors and how to resolve them in this guide.
Engineering
How to get started with Sentry's Unity SDK - Part 1
User experience and performance are two of the most important metrics of any game. You need to ensure that it runs as optimally as possible on any platform.…
Engineering
How to handle Android exceptions and avoid application crashes
Let’s start by stating the obvious: An exception is a problem that occurs during the runtime of a program and disrupts its conventional flow. Exception…
Engineering
Dogfooding Chronicles: Weekly Report Emails
If you’re a Sentry user, you’ve probably seen those weekly emails we send out at the start of the week. They give a weekly recap to users of what happened in…
Engineering
React Native Debugging & Tracking During App Development
Software engineers spend a majority of their time debugging code. Learn more here about React Native debugging & error tracking.
Engineering
Understanding Performance Testing in Unity: A Real-World Example
Performance testing is an important part of any application. It helps developers to increase the application reliability while providing a smooth user…
Engineering
Mobile: The Future is Declarative
The mobile development ecosystem has always been very diverse, arguably more diverse than the web development ecosystem. Both React Native and Flutter have a declarative approach from the start, but with Android and iOS now joining the declarative bandwagon, we can see that the future of mobile development is declarative.
Engineering
How We Made JavaScript Stack Traces Awesome
Sentry helps every developer diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of their code, and we need to deliver high quality stack traces in order to do so. In this blog post, we want to explain why source maps are insufficient for solving this problem, the challenges we faced, and how we eventually pulled it off by parsing JavaScript.
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How we run our Python tests in hundreds of environments really fast
One of Sentries core company values is “for every developer”. We want to support every developer out there with our tools. But not every developer uses the newest or widely adopted tech stack, so we also try to support older versions of libraries and frameworks. To make sure that our SDK works correctly we have around 450 automated tests in our test suite that run for each change we make to the SDK.
Engineering
Django Performance Improvements - Part 4: Caching in Django Applications
In the first three parts of this series around improving performance in your Django applications, we focused on database, code optimization, and frontend…
