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When something slows down in prod, it’s too easy to fall into old habits. Throw in a few more logs, ship some metrics, try to reproduce the issue locally, and maybe reach for perf or py-spy if you’re feeling ambitious. Traces can help, but they usually stop just short of explaining why things are slow, especially when it’s deep in the stack.

Blockchain, IoT, Big Data. If you’ve been around in tech for a while, you know that these kinds of buzzwords come and go: they make a splash going in and fizzle out over time. Seeing many of them come and go over the years has made me skeptical. What are they trying to sell us this time? Some might call it getting grumpy; others might call it becoming an enterprise architect. So you’ll have to forgive me for thinking AI agents seemed like just another buzzword.

More people will build and ship applications in the next year than in the 10 years previous. As more applications make their way into “launched”, by developers of all experience levels, making sense of “what broke”, “why”, and clear paths to fixing it is going to become more and more important. This is why it made sense for Sentry to be one of the first platforms launching Vercel’s new Observability Marketplace category.

PHP apps can be deceptively simple — until something starts slowing down. Maybe it’s a page load that takes a few seconds too long, or maybe your server costs are creeping up without a clear reason. That’s where performance monitoring comes in. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to monitor and improve the performance of a PHP application. You’ll learn how to use profiling and tracing to identify bottlenecks in your code, and how to optimize your app.

Breakpoints and console.log statements might save your sanity during local dev, but production issues are another story. In prod, your errors might be distributed across different microservices, or hidden in minified code. Good luck hunting those down. That’s where Sentry’s traces and spans come in, offering you easy visibility into every network request, API call, DB fetch and more in a full-stack, distributed environment.