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July 2020

Automate Release Management with the Sentry Release GitHub Action

Time trolls people. It speeds up in good times and slows down in bad. For instance, when you push code, your brain feels like it’s in a whirlwind. But when you’re debugging subsequent errors, the hours seem to slog by. This is particularly true if you are operating without context and without the help of automation. Fortunately, our friends at GitHub built an automation platform for products like Sentry to integrate with: Sentry Release GitHub Action.

Go-Getting Lazy-Loading

Lazy-loading is the most ironic term in programming. That’s because, instead of eating its third bowl of cereal on the couch, what lazy-loading actually does is make your User Interface more efficient. And efficient UI is important to us at Sentry. We don’t want our customers tapping their feet and pointing to their imaginary watch while waiting for their page to load.

Crash by API

Crashes are something we know a thing or two about. We see a lot of reasons why apps crash, but we also see when a lot of popular mobile apps crash at once, that’s something we notice. Crashes across many mobile apps at the same time is not typically a result of an app-specific code update. I mean, there’s a non zero chance that hundreds of developers published broken apps… but these widespread issues are likely a result of two things.

Sentry Data Wash Now Offering Advanced Scrubbing

Over the past week, we rolled out access to Advanced Data Scrubbing for all users. If you were one of our Early Adopters, you’ve known about this for a couple of months. As the name implies, it’s an addition to our existing server-side data scrubbing features, meant to provide greater control and more tools to help you choose which data to redact from events. One of Sentry’s main selling points as an error monitoring platform is the data it collects and aggregates.