An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
This is the second time Sentry has caused me to have my carry-on luggage re-inspected by the TSA.
Both times, I was bringing back one of these suspiciously cute boxes of their tradeshow swag* labeled “Fun Bomb” with a round, pink bath bomb inside, which piqued forensic interest.
When the officer asked me what was in the box, I said “it’s a bath ball” because I didn’t want to get arrested for uttering the word ‘bomb’ around airport security.
But enough about that.
Sentry started out as an open source application error monitoring SDK that is now widely embedded by front-end developers, coding in Javascript, nodeJS, Ruby and the like, with popular frameworks like React and Angular.
For performance and agility reasons, today’s customers insist on apps that depend on fewer round trips to back ends, while processing more and more business logic and data in front ends, at the browser and mobile device application edge.
“If I try to order an Uber, and the app crashes, I’m not going to report it, I’ll just open Lyft,” says David Cramer, Sentry’s founder and CEO. “We want to help app development teams move faster and minimize risk. While we offer full-stack error tracing, customers experience the production breakdowns in front-ends, where the .js application logic lives.”
Now a hyper-growth venture-backed company, Sentry integrates to the developer’s platforms of choice, CI/CD pipeline and issue resolution tools, allowing teams to spot and roll back code-level errors at the commit point, as well as conducting automated root cause analysis of flaws and performance issues that appear in blue-green deployments or production.
The firm reports more than a million installs, and thousands of commercial development customers depending on them for continuous user experience improvement from gaming to banking apps. Sentry is now expanding on its advantages for preventative measures to offer deeper problem-solving capabilities for app developers to interact with business and support workflows.
Hey, if they can stop critical apps from blowing up on customers in production, maybe they are the bomb…
[*Full disclosure: Though my daughter appreciated me bringing home their bath bomb swag, that did not influence my decision to take a briefing from Sentry.]
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