Anton Pirker

Anton Pirker

Blogs Published by Anton Pirker

How to Refactor and Not Break Things
Engineering

How to Refactor and Not Break Things

How we completed a huge refactoring of a software used by thousands of developers without breaking things.

Tame the performance of code you didn't write: A journey into stable diffusion
Product Updates

Tame the performance of code you didn't write: A journey into stable diffusion

In our daily lives as developers, we have to deal with a lot of code that we did not write ourselves (or wrote ourselves but already forgot that we did). We…

How we run our Python tests in hundreds of environments really fast
Engineering

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.

How we run our Python tests in hundreds of environments really fast
Product Updates

How we run our Python tests in hundreds of environments really fast

Not in a reading mood? You also can watch the talk I gave at DjangoCon 2022. One of Sentries core company values is “for every developer”. We want to support…

Relay as a Lambda Extension Using the Actor Model in Rust
Engineering

Relay as a Lambda Extension Using the Actor Model in Rust

Relay is an open source project by Sentry that receives data from Sentry SDKs for pre-processing. We wanted to make Relay behave like an AWS Lambda Extension moving our service closer to your code, and decreasing the latency of your Lambda functions. In this blog post, I’ll share how we used the actor model to set up Relay to behave like a Lambda Extension.

Relay as a Lambda Extension Using the Actor Model in Rust
Product Updates

Relay as a Lambda Extension Using the Actor Model in Rust

Relay is an open source project by Sentry that receives data from Sentry SDKs for pre-processing. This is done before the data is sent to an upstream Relay…

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