April 2017 Summaries

Erik Lee has joined the Sentry team, bringing experience from Mixpanel and RainforestQA, where he helped customers make sense of data and build better products. At Sentry, he will work with the business team to enable customer success using the platform. In his free time, Erik enjoys spending time with his girlfriend and dog, and is known for his sneaker collection.

Jan Crisostomo has joined the Sentry team as Head of Talent. She brings experience in recruiting and managing talent programs for tech companies like Google, Dropbox, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Jan will be responsible for building the Sentry team despite her own self-deprecating sense of humor about having no talents. In her free time, she enjoys sipping tea, traveling, and writing a yet-to-be-published book titled "The 4-Hour Nap".

The author of this text is discussing the challenges of debugging crashes on iOS devices, specifically with regards to symbolication (the process of converting addresses into function names). The author notes that tools like Sentry struggle with iOS crashes due to the complexities of the operating system and its libraries. To address this, the author describes how Sentry uses a combination of internal and external tools to collect and resolve symbols, including their own LLVM-based symbolication library for Python, as well as a custom HTTP service written in Rust called the "sentry symbol server". This service allows users to submit addresses to be symbolicated and receive responses with function names. The author acknowledges that there are still challenges with collecting all system symbols and notes that this is an area of ongoing research and development.

Sentry hosted an open source sprint for the SF Python community in March, attracting over 50 participants who worked on various projects, including Sentry. The event allowed newcomers to contribute to widely used open source projects, with five attendees successfully merging their first commits to a major project. During the sprint, contributors made notable improvements to Sentry and other projects, such as enhancing search functionality and streamlining invite flows. The event provided an opportunity for individuals to start contributing to Sentry and other open source projects by setting up their development environment and engaging with the community forum.