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    Patching A Flood of 404s

    Dogfooding Chronicles
    Documentation serves as a roadmap, guiding you toward reliable and high-performing code. Like maps that evolve to reflect new roads and infrastructure, our docu...
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    Jamstack June: A Recap

    SDK Updates
    Like any jam session, Jamstack June must end. But not before we reprise a few of our greatest licks of the month: Our Next.js SDK monitors your Next.js projects...
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    Why Debugging JavaScript Sucks — And What You Can Do About It

    Sentry
    What makes JavaScript great is also what makes it frustrating to debug. Its asynchronous nature makes it easy to manipulate the DOM in response to user events, ...
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    Jamstack, Next.js, Netlify, and Sentry: How The Pieces Fit

    Error Monitoring
    Jamstack (Javascript + APIs + Markup) is a web architecture that combines the convenience of pre-built websites with the capacity to handle custom APIs and serv...
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    Find the Root Cause Faster with Trace View and Trace Navigator

    Dashboards
    Like a bratty teenager, traditional monitoring answers your questions, but does so in a terse, unhelpful manner: Why is my page slow? Guess it’s the API call. I...
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    Great Moments in Application Monitoring

    Discover
    The consequences of poor application performance are both real and terrifying: lost customers, lost trust from your team, and lost confidence in your abilities....
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    Measuring Success with Sentry

    SDK Updates
    In the early days of web development, there was one way to measure code: WTFs per minute. It was a metric that could be applied across all languages, as every d...
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    Measuring User Experience with Web Vitals

    Dashboards
    Top of search for you means top of mind for your customers. And with Google’s upcoming Page Experience update to Web Vitals taking place in a few weeks, now’s t...
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    Python 3 Compatibility: What To Know

    Sentry
    Compatibility is a moving target. This is particularly true for backwards-incompatible languages such as Python 3, as it forces developers to shoehorn Python 3 ...
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    Asking The Right Query With Discover

    Discover
    Successful businesses don’t sort data — they shape it. Discover, Sentry’s query builder, gives form to your event data so you can measure performance and trace ...
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    A Gem of an Update: Performance Monitoring for Ruby

    SDK Updates
    https://sentry.io/resources/distributed-tracing-infographic/In order to continuously improve your Ruby application, you need to understand everything your code ...
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    Sentry Receives SOC 2 Type 2 Certification

    Sentry
    No matter your business, keeping customer data secure is critical toward keeping your customer’s trust. With the rise in data breaches (and subsequent security ...
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    How Slow is Slow?

    Dashboards
    Slow is the new downtime. What you once feared from a downed website — decreased conversion rates, lower page ranks, abandoned carts — now applies to a slow-loa...
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    Go-Getting Lazy-Loading

    Dogfooding Chronicles
    Lazy-loading is the most ironic term in programming. That’s because, instead of eating its third bowl of cereal on the couch, what lazy-loading actually does is...
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    See Slow Faster with Performance Monitoring

    Dashboards
    iPod to iPhone. Breaking Bad to Better Call Saul. Super Mario to Mario Maker. Leaders don’t rest on their laurels. That’s what motivated us to create Performanc...
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    Don’t Be Alarmed by Alerts

    Sentry
    Among developers, alerts have a bad rep. But outside the coding environment, alerts can signify positive developments. For example, a microwave just alerted me ...
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    Dogfooding Chronicles: Thinking Backward, Moving Forward

    Dogfooding Chronicles
    Zac Propersi, Engineering Manager at Sentry, can tell when a page is not loading as fast as it should — just by looking at it. While working on our new Metric A...
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    Dogfooding Chronicles: Tracing the path from “It’s Slow” to “What’s Slow”

    Dogfooding Chronicles
    Dogfooding is the practice of sampling your own product before the public does. For dog food executives, chowing down on their own kibble is a literal gut-check...
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