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Improve Performance in Your iOS Applications - Part 1
This article walks through performance improvements focused on the build system, configuration changes, and more.
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Unity Tutorial: Developing Your First Unity Game - Part 1
In this article, we are going to walk through adding a new scene, two important components (Rigid 2D and Box Collider 2D), how to destroy a game object, prefab, and how to instantiate a prefab.
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Sentry Points of Presence: How We Built a Distributed Ingestion Infrastructure
Event ingestion is one of the most mission-critical components at Sentry, so it’s only natural that we constantly strive to improve its scalability and efficiency. In this blog post, we want to share our journey of designing and building a distributed ingestion infrastructure—Sentry Points of Presence— that handles billions of events per day and helps thousands of organizations see what actually matters and solve critical issues quickly.
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Unity Tutorial: What You Need to Know Before Developing Your First Unity Game
This step-by-step walkthrough of Unity's platform will help beginners navigate platform basics, with screenshots to assist.
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11 Python IDEs Developers Should Consider
While all beginning Python developers will probably start coding using Python’s Integrated Development and Learning Environment (IDLE), it won’t take long before they realize this approach has its limits. Most will look to tools that help them more efficiently build code.
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Continuous Performance Improvement of HTTP API
We develop an analytics HTTP API in Python. This is how we discover what to improve to serve requests faster.
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How we trimmed the Sentry JavaScript SDK file size by 20%
SDKs naturally increase in size over time. After all, it does take more bytes to implement more features. This is not a big deal for most languages—the relative size of each new feature is small, and load times and storage aren’t big concerns for code running on a server. Larger JS bundles mean longer load times, which in turn increase user misery, which then can cause the user to leave pages entirely.
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How we optimized Python API server code 100x
Some of the tricks we used to speed up calls to our analytics API written in Python: played with asyncio, messed with SQLAlchemy, hacked deep in asyncpg, rewrote parts in Cython, found better data structures, replaced some pandas with pure numpy.
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Alias: An approach to .NET Assembly Conflict Resolution
Most plugin based models load all assemblies into a single shared context. This is a common approach because it has better memory usage and startup performance. The history and rules of assembly loading in .NET is convoluted; its current status makes it difficult (and sometimes impossible) to load multiple different versions of the same assembly into a shared context. Instead of trying to struggle with existing options we decided to build a new tool: Alias.
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Tracking Stability in a Bluetooth Low Energy-Based React-Native App
Daniel is an Agile Software Developer specializing in all forms of mobile development, Native iOS, React-Native, and beyond
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Why is Python so Popular?
Nahla Davies is a software developer and tech writer. Before devoting her work full time to technical writing, she managed—among other intriguing things—to serve as a lead programmer at an Inc. 5,000 experiential branding organization whose clients include Samsung, Time Warner, Netflix, and Sony.
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How to monitor Lambda functions in your SST application
Jay V is one of the founders of Serverless Stack (SST), an open-source framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps. He spends his time trying to…
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Monitoring our Local Development Environment with Sentry
Is your organization's local development environment plagued with issues? Read on how you can use Sentry to monitor it and help you solve issues quickly.
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Distributed Tracing 101 for Full Stack Developers
In today’s modern web stack it’s anything but. Full stack developers are expected to write JavaScript executing in the browser, interop with multiple database technologies, and deploy server side code on different server architectures (e.g. serverless). Without the right tools, understanding how a user interaction in the browser cascades into a 500 server error deep in your server stack is nigh-impossible. Enter: distributed tracing.
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Instrumenting Our Frontend Test Suite (...and fixing what we found)
Adding Instrumentation to Jest Here at Sentry, we like to dogfood our product as much as possible. Sometimes, it results in unusual applications of our product…
