Engineering
An iOS developer's first impressions of Flutter: Part 1
A little about myself I've been working in mobile app development since 2010, initially with Adobe AIR and PhoneGap, but for nearly ten years now I have mainly…
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Unity Debugging: Tips and Tricks
Debugging in Unity Debugging is a frequently performed task not just for general software developers but also for game developers. During a debugging process…
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Django Performance Improvements - Part 3: Frontend Optimizations
In the last 2 parts of this series around improving performance in your Django applications, we focused on database and code optimizations. In part 3, we will…
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Monitoring Performance at Moonbeam from Day One
I’m an engineer during the day and a founder at night – so I don’t have time to fiddle with complicated instrumentation or bugs that are hard to track down. That’s why I picked the tech stack that I did.
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How to Publish Your Unity Game to Google Play
For this tutorial, we will publish the "Tap (Frog)" game I developed in my previous Unity series, which you can explore here. You need to have a Google…
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Performance Monitoring in Next.js Applications
Performance monitoring is an essential part of development. It’s usually one of the first things you’d want to do after setting up an existing project or…
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Understanding the Performance Impact of Generated JavaScript
In the modern web, the JavaScript you write is often down-compiled using a compiler like Babel to make sure your JavaScript is compatible with older browsers or environments. In addition, if you are using TypeScript (like the Sentry SDK’s do) or something similar, you’ll have to transpile your TypeScript to JavaScript. Understanding how your code is being transpiled and downcompiled is important, because your bundle size is affected by your final generated JavaScript. This post is all about the technical prep work needed to ship a 0 bug reported major issue.
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Automate Your Boring Tasks with Ruby
If you aren't already fed up with doing the same boring stuff over and over again, you will In the long run. Tasks which are repeated again and again in the…
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JavaScript SDK “Package Size is Massive” - So we reduced it by 29%
Developers started to notice just how big our JavaScript package was and yeah, we knew. We weren’t ignoring the issues; after all, we don’t want the Sentry package to be the cause of a slowdown. But to reduce our JavaScript SDK package size effectively we had to account for shipping new capabilities, like being able to manage the health of a release and performance monitoring, while maintaining a manageable bundle size. After all, new features == bigger package - usually.
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Making a Time Zone Picker Control for .NET MAUI
In this post, Matt-Johnson Pint from the Sentry .NET team walks us through how he made a Time Zone Picker user interface control for .NET MAUI, leveraging MAUI's support for platform-specific code.
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Automate Your Boring Tasks with Python
In many critical areas, you can automate the completion of repetitive chores in an efficient and effective manner by using a computer language such as Python.…
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How Clever.fm Monitors and Fixes Real Issues
Clever.fm is developing a platform to connect podcast listeners with community and content to make podcasting financially sustainable for creators. Our…
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Django Performance Improvements - Part 2: Code Optimization
The following guest post addresses how to improve your services’s performance with Sentry and other application profilers for Python. Check out this post to…
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Tips for Optimizing React Native Application Performance - Part 2: Using Sentry SDK for Performance Monitoring
Monitoring performance in front-end applications is vital. It focuses on the areas of the application users experience. These areas are slow rendering or frame…
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Converting Your iOS Application to Android: Part 3
In the previous two articles we've looked at why you should consider converting your application to Android, considerations to be aware of when converting your…
