Will McMullen
Product Marketing Manager, Tracing & Performance
Will is a product marketing leader with a career-long passion for bringing intuitive, powerful developer tools to market. Recently, he’s been working on finding new ways to empower dev teams with a deeper understanding of how their applications work in production, and creating content to help teams discover what’s possible with the tools at their disposal. Out of the office, you’ll find Will sailing the SF bay, exploring neighborhoods on his bike, noodling on the guitar, or working on mediocre electronic music.
Blogs Published by Will McMullen
Tracing Just Got a Whole Lot More Useful: Search, Visualize, and Alert with Sentry’s new Query Engine
Performance MonitoringFor a while, tracing in Sentry was... fine. You could open up a slow transaction, poke around, find the N+1, and feel like a hero. But if you wanted to answer m...
Read onLaravel just works. Now your performance monitoring does too.
Performance MonitoringYou remember that first time spinning up a Laravel app? Routes, auth, ORM, queues, all wired up without much effort. It’s one of the reasons Laravel feels produ...
Read onMonitoring & Debugging a Checkout Flow in Flask & React
Performance MonitoringWhen your checkout flow breaks, customers disappear faster than most ‘cutting-edge’ JS metaframeworks. Thankfully, setting up observability for your critical pa...
Read onDebug App Performance Down to the Function Call–Introducing Continuous Profiling & UI Profiling
Performance MonitoringWhen something slows down in prod, it’s too easy to fall into old habits. Throw in a few more logs, ship some metrics, try to reproduce the issue locally, and m...
Read onHow to get metrics, groups and alerts from your spans in Trace Explorer
Performance MonitoringWe’ve all worked on that app that hangs just a little too long in weird places, or had that query we could never get to perform just right. The network waterfal...
Read onUsing server-side caching to speed up your applications, save on infra costs, and deliver better UX
Performance MonitoringIf you’ve ever been floored by a sub-100ms response time, you’ve likely got caching to thank. Caching is the unsung hero of performance, shaving precious millis...
Read onMissing indexes are slowing down your database - here's how to find and fix them with Sentry
Performance MonitoringSlow database queries drag down performance for both developers and users. They waste resources, slow down testing, and frustrate customers with laggy experienc...
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