Chris Heher

Blogs Published by Chris Heher

Patching A Flood of 404s
Engineering

Patching A Flood of 404s

In our latest edition of Dogfooding Chronicles, we use Discover to root out the bane of all companies everywhere: the 404 page.

Jamstack June: A Recap
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Jamstack June: A Recap

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…

Why Debugging JavaScript Sucks — And What You Can Do About It
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Why Debugging JavaScript Sucks — And What You Can Do About It

What makes JavaScript great is also what makes it frustrating to debug, but there are methods you can use to improve the debugging experience.

Jamstack, Next.js, Netlify, and Sentry: How The Pieces Fit
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Jamstack, Next.js, Netlify, and Sentry: How The Pieces Fit

Jamstack (Javascript + APIs + Markup) is a web architecture that combines the convenience of pre-built websites with the capacity to handle custom APIs and…

Find the Root Cause Faster with Trace View and Trace Navigator
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Find the Root Cause Faster with Trace View and Trace Navigator

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.…

Great Moments in Application Monitoring
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Great Moments in Application Monitoring

The consequences of poor application performance are both real and terrifying: lost customers, lost trust from your team, and lost confidence in your…

Measuring Success with Sentry
Product Updates

Measuring Success with Sentry

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…

Measuring User Experience with Web Vitals
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Measuring User Experience with Web Vitals

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…

Python 3 Compatibility: What To Know
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Python 3 Compatibility: What To Know

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…

Asking The Right Query With Discover
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Asking The Right Query With 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…

A Gem of an Update: Performance Monitoring for Ruby
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A Gem of an Update: Performance Monitoring for Ruby

https://sentry.io/resources/distributed-tracing-infographic/In order to continuously improve your Ruby application, you need to understand everything your code…

Sentry Receives SOC 2 Type 2 Certification
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Sentry Receives SOC 2 Type 2 Certification

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…

How Slow is Slow?
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How Slow is Slow?

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…

Go-Getting Lazy-Loading
Engineering

Go-Getting Lazy-Loading

In our latest edition of the Dogfooding Chronicles, we use Performance to motivate lazy-loading user-facing data.

See Slow Faster with Performance Monitoring
Product Updates

See Slow Faster with Performance Monitoring

Like nature intended, but better. Performance Monitoring from Sentry is taking off.

Don’t Be Alarmed by Alerts
Product Updates

Don’t Be Alarmed by Alerts

Set thresholds. Receive alerts. Sentry’s new Metric Alerts makes it easy to swift-ly, react to issues before things go off the rails. C what we did there?

Dogfooding Chronicles: Thinking Backward, Moving Forward
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.

Dogfooding Chronicles: Tracing the path from “It’s Slow” to “What’s Slow”
Engineering

Dogfooding Chronicles: Tracing the path from “It’s Slow” to “What’s Slow”

In part one of Sentry’s Dogfooding Chronicles, find out how we used Performance’s application monitoring features to keep a slow product demo from demoralizing the team.

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