Engineering
Tracking Stability in a Bluetooth Low Energy-Based React-Native App
Daniel is an Agile Software Developer specializing in all forms of mobile development, Native iOS, React-Native, and beyond
Engineering
Why is Python so Popular?
Nahla Davies is a software developer and tech writer. Before devoting her work full time to technical writing, she managed—among other intriguing things—to serve as a lead programmer at an Inc. 5,000 experiential branding organization whose clients include Samsung, Time Warner, Netflix, and Sony.
Engineering
How to monitor Lambda functions in your SST application
Jay V is one of the founders of Serverless Stack (SST), an open-source framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps. He spends his time trying to…
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Monitoring our Local Development Environment with Sentry
Is your organization's local development environment plagued with issues? Read on how you can use Sentry to monitor it and help you solve issues quickly.
Engineering
Distributed Tracing 101 for Full Stack Developers
In today’s modern web stack it’s anything but. Full stack developers are expected to write JavaScript executing in the browser, interop with multiple database technologies, and deploy server side code on different server architectures (e.g. serverless). Without the right tools, understanding how a user interaction in the browser cascades into a 500 server error deep in your server stack is nigh-impossible. Enter: distributed tracing.
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Instrumenting Our Frontend Test Suite (...and fixing what we found)
Adding Instrumentation to Jest Here at Sentry, we like to dogfood our product as much as possible. Sometimes, it results in unusual applications of our product…
Engineering
Dogfooding Chronicles: Never Be Content With Your Content (Security Policies)
A Content Security Policy (CSP) lets a browser know which content sources are to be trusted — and which aren’t. Learn how to update your CSP and protect your application.
Engineering
Slow and Steady: Converting Sentry’s Entire Frontend to TypeScript
Recently, Sentry converted 100% of its frontend React codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript. This year-long effort spanned over a dozen members of the engineering team, 1,100 files, and 95,000 lines of code.
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Using Sentry Performance To Make Sentry Performant
Like many companies, Sentry uses feature flags to determine when certain users see certain features. Recently, we decided to switch our feature flag software…
Engineering
Issue Detail Performance Improvements
One of Sentry’s most-trafficked pages is our issue details page, as it helps our customers understand the root cause of an error. For those of you who are new…
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Verifying Large Refactors in Production with Sentry
Recently we used Sentry to ensure we didn’t break Sentry while doing a large code refactoring project.
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Finding and Fixing Django N+1 Problems
Sentry now detects N+1 issues. Learn more about how to find and fix Django N+1 problems here.
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Go-Getting Lazy-Loading
In our latest edition of the Dogfooding Chronicles, we use Performance to motivate lazy-loading user-facing data.
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Handling GraphQL Errors Using Sentry
When GraphQL queries go wrong, the focus is usually on handling the returned exception. Learn how to take the original GraphQL request & translate it into a more informative response with Sentry.
Engineering
Dogfooding Chronicles: Thinking Backward, Moving Forward
In part two of Dogfooding Chronicles, our team used all available resources — Discover, Metric Alerts, and our new Performance offering — to track a slow-loading frontend issue back to its backend origins.
