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David Cramer

@zeeg

6 months

Still can’t believe we all got tricked into using graphql

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@zeeg

6 months

GraphQL's adoption issue in a nutshell: "It's great that my frontend can decide what data the API returns!" What an experienced engineer sees: "It's terrifying that end users can change the performance characteristics of our service on the fly"

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@zeeg

11 months

tbqh is basically everything you wanted Heroku to be

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@zeeg

7 months

Sentry is giving $500k+ to open source it relies on this year, >2x last year. We didn’t start with a high $ amount - and honestly this is still small potatoes - so what’s stopping your company from doing it?

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@zeeg

4 months

I don’t understand why the JavaScript community is obsessed with file based routing. It’s not needed and you can clearly see the complexity it creates in every real world implementation.

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1 year

Everyone’s all “monoliths don’t scale” but then when you look at what they build they’re talking single digit req/s. Monoliths scale just fine y’all need critical thinking instead of Hype Driven Development. Honestly don’t know how microservices are even still a topic.

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@yagiznizipli Don’t worry half of it’s in the browser; it’s someone else’s CPU we get to burn

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4 years

Sentry has committed to contributing $100,000 to open source in 2020

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5 months

It’s wild that somehow spaces won over tabs. If we ever meet another intelligent species they’re definitely going to judge us on this one.

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@zeeg

1 year

15*365-1 days ago Sentry was born

initial working code · getsentry/sentry@3c2e875

github.com

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@zeeg

2 months

In 2019 I stepped down as CEO at Sentry and hired a replacement. If you're a "founder/CEO", I encourage you to give this a read, and consider that long-term you may also make this choice, because ultimately you likely aren't a CEO.

You're Not a CEO

In 2019 I stepped down as CEO at Sentry. I remember when talking to our CFO about considering the transition his response (whether considered or not) was that he thought I was capable of doing the...

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David Cramer

@zeeg

4 years

@laravelphp @taylorotwell Some of you might ask why PHP is one of the first platforms we chose to support. We go where developers are. Laravel is one of the fastest growing communities we’ve seen over the years. Easy for folks to forget that Silicon Valley isn’t representative of all devs.

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@zeeg

7 months

This Vercel "customer data" scandal- yall need to let it go. Guy did a bad thing (a thing which caused no harm at the end of the day). Guy got fired. Internet thinks the best spend of their time is to send a mob after guy.

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19 days

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@zeeg

5 months

Everyone blames cloud providers for their infra spend when the real culprit is k8s and the culture around it

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@zeeg

2 months

Cant believe people think Go error handling is good

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@zeeg

6 months

@ericktamayo I think this a the requirement of building software

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@zeeg

28 days

@leeerob @vercel One nit: > First off, Vercel has an Edge Network. A request comes in for your site. The edge region can go grab some HTML or JS for your site and quickly return it. Great. Do you just mean a CDN? I think a problem the ecosystem has is applying too much marketing language.

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@zeeg

6 months

Except that the people pushing it are lacking that experience, lacking the visibility to know the consequences of their decisions. This entire story arc is the problem w/ the industry. Its not just GraphQL, but its all the hype-driven-development.

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@zeeg

1 year

it still amazes me when JS folks discover 30? year old web concepts and think of them as ground breaking new ideas "Middleware. Changes. Everything." - coming to a conference near you sometime in the next few years

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@zeeg

2 months

Do I rewrite my backend in Go y/n? Just looking for stability and perf. Node ecosystem still seems a little silly.

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@zeeg

1 year

Did @stripe just tell us to go fuck ourselves? > Whether you win or lose a dispute, card networks charge Stripe a fee in either case. To cover these costs, starting June 1, Stripe will no longer return the $15 dispute fee for successfully contested disputes. The dispute fee

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@zeeg

2 months

Sold a big chunk of my nvidia gamblings (earnings?) today 🏎️🔜 (now where the hell do I park this thing)

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@zeeg

21 days

When was the last time IBM accelerated anything

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@zeeg

6 months

@syrusakbary complexity without necessity

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@zeeg

3 months

Zero latency is a myth. I realize most folks building software these days likely are unfamiliar w/ academics, but CAP is a great place to start.

CAP theorem - Wikipedia

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Turso

@tursodatabase

3 months

What's better than low latency? Zero latency. Embedded Replicas let you skip the network and read directly from a local SQLite file. Sync with the remote database as often as you like using your preferred libSQL Client library.

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@zeeg

4 years

Kubernetes is definitely *not* the future. It’s like the JavaScript ecosystem, we’ve just over engineered the problem until we created an experience that just compounds complexity into an unsolvable state.

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David Cramer

@zeeg

3 years

> Yesterday, for the first time in Sentry's history, ingestion handled more than 100,000 requests per second. In total, we received 6.36 billion requests in one single day. Dang.

Careers

Work at Sentry. We have fun. But not too much. This is still work, after all.

sentry.io

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@zeeg

2 months

node.js was a mistake sorry

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@zeeg

5 months

I find it insane that people have the sentiment that you cant write stable, quality software without types. It's not that you can't value types, but the idea that software is somehow superior when its typed is absolutely irrational. It was fine yesterday its still fine today.

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@zeeg

2 months

tbqh, if @bunjavascript succeeds, imo it has nothing to do with performance its that I won't have to configure a dozen different things to work together literally no one should have to spend time on complex toolchain in an ecosystem this large

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@zeeg

7 months

Somehow the narrative by some is “lol they raised 200m who cares”. We give millions/yr to open source in a variety of ways, and have for our entire lifetime. Anyone suggesting we are anything but faithful here should step up or shut up. This industry embarrasses me some days.

David Cramer

@zeeg

7 months

Sentry is giving $500k+ to open source it relies on this year, >2x last year. We didn’t start with a high $ amount - and honestly this is still small potatoes - so what’s stopping your company from doing it?

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4 months

Sentry is now using Next.js in prod: Speed feels great, though already concerned about our bandwidth bill with this pre-fetching behavior...

Sentry Docs | Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software

Self-hosted and cloud-based application performance monitoring & error tracking that helps software teams see clearer, solve quicker, & learn continuously.

docs.sentry.io

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David Cramer

@zeeg

1 month

I've learned today that OpenTelemetry is literally unable to implement traditional traces (for example, long running operations), and has duct taped it by adding random edges (span links) as if a trace has become a graph database.

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@zeeg

2 months

A lesson I took away from my time at Dropbox, and their impossible to maintain codebase, dev env, and decade-old (in 2015) version of Pylons (a Python framework): None of that shit matters. Code comes and goes, and you can always throw it away when you need to do something new.

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if you're suffering from tech decision fatigue, i wrote about a story from earlier in my career that helped me understand what's actually important I hope folks find it helpful + mildly interesting

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@zeeg

4 months

The industry, especially in enterprise tech, doesn't seem to understand brand marketing. People often ask how Sentry attracted customers, and both then and now is via brand marketing. 1/

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David Cramer

@zeeg

6 months

How many PhDs to understand the example on the homepage?

Angular

@angular

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Welcome to Angular’s renaissance.

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2 months

@t3dotgg TypeScript

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@zeeg

4 months

Infra should be usage-based pricing. Too many companies seem to continuously get this wrong. If you are selling infra, you are selling usage. Price it that way from the beginning or you're just giong to spend a lot of time on churn. (1/)

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@wesbos

4 months

Damn, Render really squeezing you these days. They take away features so you have to pay $19 to be able to log in and turn them back on. $19/user/mo on all these services seems to be the norm for everything these days :\

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@zeeg

2 months

I always struggle to articulate Sentry’s business model. We’re an enterprise technology company, except we have more than 50,000 paying customers. So I'm just going to say we're an enterprise company and everyone else is doing it wrong. I wrote a bit about what this means..

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David Cramer

@zeeg

4 years

Want to come replace Gatsby with Next.js at Sentry? We’ve got FTE opening to build our docs platform. DMs open.

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David Cramer

@zeeg

5 years

We’re making a big change to Sentry today:

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David Cramer

@zeeg

3 years

Sentry since we launched SaaS in 2013 ($ is ARR): 2012: bootstrapped with $1k 2013: $41,952 2014: $258,312 2015: $552,984 - $1.5m Seed (“let’s make this a real thing”) 2016: $9 Series A 2018: $16m Series B 2019: $40m Series C 202x: IPO While $ matters traction is/was our goal.

Chris Sev

@chris__sev

4 years

yearly revenue since we started in 2013 2013: Like 0$ 2014: $15,607 2015: wheres that tax return?! 2016: $156,346 2017: $190,517 2018: $358, 382 2019: $233,686 + acquired by DO Consistent effort * time = progress!

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@zeeg

1 year

Award winning journalist doesn’t understand these are companies. Who employ people. Who buy products from other people. Who employ more people.

David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈

@David_Leavitt

1 year

The average American has nowhere close to $250,000 that each checking/savings account is insured to. I don't feel sorry for anyone who has over that amount using Silicon Valley Bank when they can also have multiple banks to keep their money. Truly a 1% problem.

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@zeeg

2 years

Sorry folks, Mastodon will never be a thing.

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David Cramer

@zeeg

2 years

@balloob @pypi Real talk tho who is whining about 2fa

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@zeeg

2 months

Its wild to me that Go developers try to unit test SQL calls. Its not that expensive to test against a real instance/driver, and far less brittle!

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@zeeg

1 year

This thread, full of people arguing with each other, is fundamentally misinformation. This is not how venture works, nor is any of the data shown in this thread accurate to the story being told. VC is great if you can build a business, so its bootstrapping. Neither are good if

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Imagine having 4 cofounders at a VC funded startup 🥹 Selling for $100M Diluted to 10% ownership by VCs Tax takes 50% Go home with $1.25M cash after 6 years working 7 days a week 12 hours per day or $47/hour Many people on Upwork make more than that!

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David Cramer

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7 months

Sentry is the fastest company to ever reach 50,000 paid customers in the APM industry. (ok technicality, we're also the only one afaik)

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@zeeg

3 years

Sentry is finally running on Python 3 in production. Guess that means we don't have to fund Python 2 dev after all..

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@zeeg

10 months

We wrongly labeled Codecov as Open Source yesterday:

Let's Talk About Open Source

Yesterday we announced that Codecov is now “Open Source”, and we messed up in two ways: We wrongly used the term Open Source; while…

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@zeeg

6 months

@iamwil I forget the exact quantity of gaggle but this is what people miss. Very few of us have those needs. 🫡

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@zeeg

2 years

Making wall street purple its fine

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@zeeg

2 years

14 years ago today was the first commit to Sentry: Thanks to everyone who's been part of this journey!

initial working code · getsentry/sentry@3c2e875

github.com

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@zeeg

7 months

Take 1-10% of your marketing budget and put it towards something with a meaningful impact instead. It’s not hard, and that money won’t be missed.

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@zeeg

2 months

@t3dotgg To be fair you can definitely waterproof a replaceable battery compartment (e.g. see all action cameras)

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@zeeg

4 years

If you’re building a @laravelphp app, give this a shot and let us know what you think! /cc @taylorotwell

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@DanielGri

4 years

We just shipped PHP SDK 3.0 and Laravel SDK 2.0 with support for Performance Monitoring 🎉 Laravel supports tracking of Incoming Requests, App Bootstrap time, Guzzle HTTP calls, Template rendering times and DB calls. Give it a try

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David Cramer

@zeeg

8 months

Translation: people are no longer paying for basecamp and hey didn’t go anywhere so let’s say believed controversial takes on what we’re going to try

DHH

@dhh

8 months

SaaS has reigned supreme for long enough. The Church of Recurring Revenue is due a reformation. It’s time for more choices in web software that you buy ONCE and run yourself. Starting late 2023, you’ll see such products available from @37signals .

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1 year

Thrilled to welcome the @syntaxfm team to @getsentry ! You're probably wildly confused about this investment- don't expect me to clear that up too much, but I wrote up some thoughts on why this is significant and exciting:

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@zeeg

13 days

Anyone have a policy at their company where you have to pay money if you're late to a meeting? We're talking about creating one (for the leadership team), where we pay out to a charity when we're late. Looking for inspo.

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@zeeg

1 month

The trend of exclaiming your barely functional zero customer mvp is gonna change the game makes my blood boil. Anyone can hack together a shitty (and flashy) product demo. Few can make it work in the real world. Some of yall founders need a reality check.

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@zeeg

3 months

Theory: kubernetes is the tech sectors strategy to minimize unemployment

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@zeeg

8 months

🙌 @jarredsumner

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@zeeg

10 months

👀

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@zeeg

5 months

The toy donation boxes were empty in this giant office tower Sentry is in so we gotta show those weak companies how it’s done

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@zeeg

2 months

Alright after staring at it I think the "i dont need an ORM" take is misplaced in Go. So. Much. Boilerplate.

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@zeeg

11 months

I always wonder if I'm fighting an impossible fight to prevent BigCo culture at Sentry. Are there any thousand+ person orgs that don't operate huge amounts of bureaucracy and thus grind to a halt (and alienate high productivity contributors)?

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@zeeg

1 year

Is it market manipulation if you have a board seat on say 50 companies and you tell all 50 companies to remove large sums of assets from a single bank, and that becomes a driving cause for said bank to collapse?

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@zeeg

21 days

Maybe IBM could acquire Datadog and make my life a lil easier

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@zeeg

21 days

When was the last time IBM accelerated anything

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@zeeg

4 years

An early concept of what you’ll see later this year from Sentry. Come help us build it!

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@zeeg

4 years

Sentry has more paid customers than any other application monitoring service in the entire industry. Kind of mind blowing.

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@zeeg

2 months

Am I going to hate having a monolith in Go?

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@zeeg

10 months

When's someone going to make the batteries included React-based framework? Auth, Admin, ORM, basically Django. All this stuff we get nickel and dimed for now as SaaS, which hasnt changed in decades. I'd fund open source around that (though I would not fund it as a business).

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@zeeg

2 months

I’m always envious of folks who have taken time off in their career. Slowly closing in on 40 and have never taken a break more than a few weeks long. May be why I’m where I’m at in life, but still envious.

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@zeeg

6 months

@bitecode_dev Never forget XSLT

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@zeeg

4 years

If you are impacted by the Mozilla layoffs and in the Bay Area, Toronto, or Vienna, we’ve got a variety of open technical roles (some unlisted). DM me and I’m happy to chat more.

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@zeeg

4 years

@dhh That is a good monitoring tool yall are using right there! ;)

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@zeeg

3 years

> It has been a year in the making, but today, Sentry has reached a huge milestone in achieving SOC2 Type 2 and HIPAA attestation/certification. We’re all grown up ☺️

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@zeeg

3 years

🎉🎉

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@zeeg

7 months

lol you cant make this shit up

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1 month

Is this how you @golang ?

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@zeeg

7 months

Anyone who thinks its wrong that an engineer had the ability to know information about customers has not worked at a real business before. This is fairly status quo (especially early stage) and is generally not harmful.

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@zeeg

2 months

Still can't believe @astrodotbuild 's new DB (Astro Studio) is powered by Firebase

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@zeeg

3 years

The team shipped a great new update to our subscription management features today. People often underestimate the importance of back office features, but its just as valued by your customers.

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@zeeg

5 years

Today on the internet: “your free software, which is still free, which was built by you, is not pure open source so Im going to go use a worse, fully closed source product” 🙃

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@zeeg

8 months

> 4. No A/B tests. Decisions are based on taste and opinions.

Lenny Rachitsky

@lennysan

8 months

How @Linear builds product: 1. No product managers, just a head of product. PM duties are distributed across engineering and design. 2. No durable cross-functional teams. Teams assemble around a project and disperse once the project is done. 3. No metrics-based goals. Just a

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@zeeg

4 years

Big year coming!

Sentry

@getsentry

4 years

Please welcome Sentry's new CEO Milin Desai. @virtualmilin will lead us in a new era of growth as co-founder David Cramer takes on the CTO role to spend more time in the #dev community and continue to build on our innovative tech. More from @Zeeg :

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@zeeg

6 months

@t3dotgg T5 stack and one-up them

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@zeeg

7 months

Kicking this off with something light. A little bit of history, getting to bootstrapped, and the luck of product-market-fit. Sentry: From the Beginning Spoiler: it was mostly opportunistic and brute forced.

Sentry: From the Beginning

I've been trying to invest more and more of my free time interacting with founders. I genuinely feel we've been through a lot with Sentry and I can provide some useful value to others. More so, I...

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David Cramer

@zeeg

7 months

I think I want to write more about Sentry's history (e.g. chioces we made, how the business runs, technology, etc). What should I cover first?

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@zeeg

3 years

@dan_abramov I disagree with that sentiment, and would say Code is a much better successor. Sublime was PAINFULLY HARD to configure. Extensions often wouldn't work without complex system configs which was always hard to get right on every new install.

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@zeeg

4 years

The nuclear winter battle station is coming along. Just another half dozen cables to run and hide!

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@zeeg

6 months

love typescript

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@zeeg

6 months

To continue the series I kicked off last week, I wanted to talk a little bit about the early pricing journey at Sentry, and what in hindsight amounts to some obvious mistakes.

A $7 Subscription

Sentry's been through quite the pricing journey over the years. I'd eventually like to write more about some of our incremental decisions, but in this post I want to focus on the early stages of the...

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@zeeg

6 months

@valigo_gg I think implicitly exposing your database as a GraphQL endpoint is probably the worst version of this you could do. I hope not too many people are actually approaching it that way (though based on responses, its definitely >0).

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@zeeg

2 years

Just. Fucking. Take. Responsibility. > There was a vulnerability in the Sentry Service implementation on Slope Wallets Where's the proof of said vulnerability? We welcome all disclosures. Logging sensitive data != that data available in public domain

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@zeeg

9 months

Do what Sentry did and remove the cookies 😎

Ryan Florence

@ryanflorence

9 months

This whole cookie banner bologna has to go. How do we undo this?

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@zeeg

2 months

What’s wild about the PlanetScale thing is literally none of you need vitess. Doesn’t mean the comms or investment thesis couldn’t have been better of course.

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6 months

With all this said, I think GraphQL is a great architecture, but the point my snark was supposed to make was that most of you shouldn't be using it. You can't afford the engineering to use it. You shouldn't desire the risk from using it. You don't have or want BigCo problems.

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