Remember that time Mom told you that the internet is a dangerous place? No? Well, she did, but you weren’t listening. Jokes aside, we can probably all agree that there are many potential security risks in web services, with all their APIs and user-contributed content. Yet, the internet is what defines our digital age, and barely any piece of technology can do without. In the midst of this insecurity, Rust came along with its memory safety and zero-cost abstractions.

Sentry will be at AWS re:Invent on November 26 through 30 in Las Vegas. We hope to see you there! Unless you’re not going, in which case we hope to see you somewhere else at a different time. There are a couple of ways to meet with us at re:Invent...

When constructing a SaaS application, it’s easy to begin in the wrong place — namely, with architecture. Focusing first on software or architecture seems appealing because everyone is doing it, but trust me, you don’t actually want to start there.

Sentry introduced (welcomed) support for minidump crash reports earlier this year. In this post, Tim Fish, an essential contributor and co-maintainer of Sentry’s Electron SDK, explores his own experience with the intersection of minidumps and Electron.

In A Comedy of Errors, we talk to engineers about the weirdest, worst, and most interesting application and infrastructure issues they’ve encountered (and resolved) over the years. This week, we hear about Py from Derek Lo, Founder and CEO, and Brian Sweatt, Lead Full-Stack Engineer. Py empowers hiring teams with a suite of products to evaluate technical candidates.

Joao Grassi — a .NET developer, front-end hobbyist, and friend of Sentry — likes .NET very much and recently tried to bring a friend to the “dark side” of .NET development. To win a point, he decided to create a small sample project using Azure DevOps. As he started, he struggled to find helpful information in the documentation (like how to control the artifact name).

At the intersection of safety and performance, you’ll find Rust — Stack Overflow’s “most-loved programming language” for three years running. Rust provides the control needed to ensure optimal performance while offering relatively high abstractions at zero-cost.

Source maps are awesome. Namely, because they are used to display your original JavaScript while debugging, which is a lot easier to look at than minified production code. In a sense, source maps are the decoder ring to your secret (minified) code. However, they can be tricky to get working properly. If you’ve run into some trouble, the tips below will hopefully help you get everything in working order.

As the most widely used source code management and error monitoring solutions, GitHub and Sentry work together to help developers improve their code and their productivity. With the newest Sentry integration release, GitHub users benefit from faster sign-in, flexible repository permissions, and easier organization-wide setup. And for the first time, GitHub Enterprise users can also take advantage of these useful integration features.

Shipping clean, safe, and correct code is a high priority for engineering at Sentry. Bugs are best discovered before they hit production because afterward they have real user impact and can drain even a high-performing team’s resources quickly. The later in the development cycle a bug is found, the longer it will take to fix.