The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Friends)
Fri, 13 Sep 2024
Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger's blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?
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Hey, friends. I'm here with Dave Rosenthal, CTO of Sentry. So, Dave, I know lots of developers know about Sentry, know about the platform because, hey, we use Sentry and we love Sentry. And I know tracing is one of the next big frontiers for Sentry. Why add tracing to the platform? Why tracing and why now?
When we first launched the ability to collect tracing data, we were really emphasizing the performance aspect of that, the kind of application performance monitoring aspect. Because you have these things that are spans that measure how long something takes.
And so the natural thing is to try to graph their durations and think about their durations and warn somebody if the durations are getting too long. But what we've realized is that the performance stuff ends up being just a bunch of gauges to look at. And it's not super actionable.
Sentry is all about this notion of debug ability and actually making it easier to fix the problem, not just sort of giving you more gauges. A lot of what we're trying to do now is focus a little bit less on the sort of just the performance monitoring side of things and turn tracing into a tool that actually aids the debug ability of problems.
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The only Bob Seger song I could name is Old Time Rock and Roll. That's like the worst one. All Bob fans kind of hate that song. I don't know the man's work, obviously.
You're missing out, man. I'll have to give you his greatest hits. It's on Spotify.
I'm sure it is. I don't use Spotify, though. I only program against it. I've been coding against Spotify this week. I finally cracked it, man. I finally cracked it. We're going to get our data out of there. Is that right? Got it, dude. I'm pulling data out of their unofficial API. It's cool.
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