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September 2022

Unity Exception Handling: A Beginner's Guide

Exceptions are the outcomes you do not usually expect in your application. But as a developer, expecting the unexpected is essential to capture exceptions and handle them appropriately. Exception handling is not only applicable to web development projects but also to Unity applications. This article brings everything you need to know as a beginner to Unity exception handling, including methods to handle exceptions, when to use them, and how to manage exceptions easier using distributed logging.

Python Performance Testing: A Comprehensive Guide

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 learn more about application profiling and Sentry’s upcoming mobile application profiling offering. We’re making intentional investments in performance monitoring to make sure we give you all the context to help you solve what’s urgent faster.

Code-level Application Monitoring for Every Developer

The monitoring, tooling, and observability space is crowded. It’s hard to keep track of what most tools in this category originally set out to do— but if we had to guess… they were probably built to support monolithic architectures with complex systems, to give Ops and IT a way to minimize the impact of an outage.

Deploy your Next.js application on Vercel using Sentry and GitHub Actions

Thanks to the power of open source tooling and cloud services, shipping an application to production has never been that easy, In this blog post, we are going to go from bootstrapping a Next.js application to deploying it on Vercel. We will use Github Action to handle the Continuous Integration and Sentry to monitor the application once it is deployed to be warned of any problems as soon as it arrives.

Sentry Dynamic Sampling Improvements - Transaction Breakdown & Latest Release

In this video, Sentry software engineer, Riccardo, will go through the user experience improvements we worked on for our new performance monitoring feature, Dynamic Sampling. These improvements will give the user a more holistic view of transaction volume connected to services and allows for more comprehensive configuration options for sampling rates.

The Sentry Remix SDK is Now Available

Sentry has made it a priority to support frontend JavaScript developers, regardless of the framework they use. This is why we have SDKs for React, Angular, Vue, Ember, NextJS and more! There’s one more SDK joining that list now - our brand new Sentry Remix SDK for the Remix framework. Remix is a new full-stack JavaScript framework that helps you build web applications with React, with a focus on following web standards and optimizing for performance.

How Rush Capped Time to Resolution by Integrating Sentry With Their With CI/CD Pipeline

Rated as the top order tracking and revenue generation app on Shopify, Rush lets businesses build and personalize their own dashboards to manage the post-sale process with real-time data, custom product recommendations, and user feedback. Their business model focuses on low touch and user-centered design (UCD), which leaves little room for issues impacting how people interact with the platform.

Sentry Performance Monitoring with Dynamic Sampling

This is a sneak peek of Sentry's new performance monitoring feature, Dynamic Sampling. With Dynamic Sampling, you can customize your sampling logic for different parts of your application without having to deploy a new release. These are actual videos submitted by Sentaurs for our monthly Show-N-Tell. We have not edited them except for obscuring personal information that may appear in screenshots. Some videos may include screenshots that contain fictitious usernames or email addresses for illustrative purposes.

How a Product Studio Mitigates User Friction with Performance Monitoring

Panenco is a Product as a Service studio with more than 50 software development, product management, data science, design, and marketing experts building and hosting applications spanning multiple industries, including healthcare, fintech and education. For them, customer success isn’t just a business function, teams focus heavily on providing a fast, frictionless app experience.

Dashboards that Replace your Release Manager

Back in my day, our offices used to have an “open concept” layout – just rows of desks. And at the end of every row was a 720i LCD TV showing 4 to 5 key metrics we’d watch after every release with great concern. While those wallboards sure were beautiful, we rarely had a clear view on how a release was trending. With our latest update to Dashboards, we’re joining form and function with Release Health widgets and a new release filter.

How to Integrate GitHub with Sentry to Increase Speed to Resolution

Toolchains are complicated these days - developers and engineering managers are working with more tools than they probably care to count. In order to work efficiently in today’s world, it is essential to have smart integrations in place that bridge the gap between your tools to get you what you need, faster.

FastAPI and Starlette Sentry Integrations Have Arrived

FastAPI is known for building REST APIs, middleware services, and simple integration for adding authentications and more. And it’s known for doing all of that…you guessed it, fast. It’s used by tech giants and scientists alike, and according to Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey 2022 more developers are using FastAPI than Ruby on Rails.