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How do companies actually use Azure DevOps? What are the use cases? We took a look at how the team at SquaredUp uses Azure DevOps to build their CI/CD pipelines and deploy new features to their SaaS product.

During the month of August we dropped heaps of new features across the entire Sentry platform. From identifying user frustration through rage and dead clicks to expanding front end Profiling support, your Sentry Dev Team has skipped their summer vacations (well, kinda…) and been hard at work delivering more capabilities to help you better deal with application errors and performance issues.

You did it! Sure, it might be four weeks overdue and late on a Friday, but you’ve finally finished deploying a long-awaited update to the web app. However, your celebrations are cut short as your phone vibrates off the table. Picking it up, you’re confronted with a developer’s worst nightmare. You’re getting flooded with messages that the login is no longer working. Was it your deployment? This is bad. Nobody can use the site if they can’t log in.

It’s quite common for data from a Search to contain references to information that is, well, unintuitive. Error or Message Codes, Port Numbers, Reference IDs, and Customer Numbers are all useful pieces of information, but far from being human-readable. That information is often available in a collateral location, often a spreadsheet or database, where it can be looked up with a “key” field.

If you mention 'log data' at a crowded business event, you'll quickly be able to tell who's in IT and who isn't. For the average person, log data is about as thrilling as a dental appointment or reconciling a years-old bank account. At the mere mention of log data, their eyes glaze over as they search for an escape from the conversation. Conversely, IT professionals' eyes light up and they become animated when the topic of log data arises.