May 2017 Summaries

Elizabeth Campbell joins Sentry as head of business development, bringing experience from Dropbox and Facebook in strategic partnerships and operations. She will focus on growing and expanding Sentry's reach through partnerships with other companies. Elizabeth is known for her diverse background and skills, having worked at multiple prominent tech companies before joining Sentry.

PyCon After-Party: Eat! Drink! Mingle and Be Merry! The PyCon after-party is a social event hosted by Linode, where attendees can unwind and have fun with the community after a day of discussing Python-related topics. The event will take place on Friday, May 19th from 6:40 PM to 8:40 PM at Spirit of 77 in Portland, OR. Attendees are required to bring their PyCon badges and comply with the PyCon Code of Conduct. This event promises to be an enjoyable experience for all who attend.

With the updated feature, Sentry can automatically retrieve commit data associated with Heroku releases, providing valuable insights for debugging new errors. Enabling this feature allows team members to be alerted immediately when their code has gone live, and provides access to deploy emails. By following a few simple steps, developers can connect their repository to Sentry, enable the Heroku integration, and start tracking releases with rich commit information and deploy emails.

You can now mention other members in issues to facilitate teamwork and collaboration, allowing them to receive notifications via email and be subscribed to the issue. Team members will also see why they are receiving notifications by searching for "subscribed:me" in their issue dashboard, and can manually unsubscribe from any issue at any time. This new feature enables seamless collaboration across different projects and technologies, such as React, Django, and Rails, using Sentry's error tracking capabilities.

Today marks nine years since the very first commit to Sentry, originally called django-db-log, which aimed to solve the problem of debug Django projects by logging exceptions to a database and exposing aggregate views. Over time, Sentry expanded its scope to collect stack locals and richer context, eventually becoming a cross-platform error monitoring solution for Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. The company spun out its cloud service, sentry.io, and began investing in the project, growing into a massive technology company with large organizations like Stripe and Uber using it behind their firewall. Sentry has continued to grow and saturate the market, with many technology companies relying on it, and now boasts 30 full-time employees across three locations.

Sentry has welcomed Ryan Goldman as its new VP of Marketing, bringing his diverse experience in marketing, team leadership, and community outreach to the role. With a background in leading teams at Mixpanel, Cloudera, and Cisco, Ryan aims to expand Sentry's reach and serve the developer community effectively. Prior to his marketing career, he managed international development projects for NGOs and had other creative pursuits, showcasing his unique blend of skills and interests.

With Sentry's new Release features, developers will have the tools they need to confidently guide deploys across the finish line, receiving rich deploy emails detailing changes and commits. Deploy tracking allows for a complete picture of a changeset's lifecycle, including context on which commits go to what environment at what time. The email also links to release summaries, providing new issues and resolved issues breakdowns. To unlock these features, developers must integrate commit data with Sentry's SDK and send deploy information via the Deploy API as part of their deployment process.

Please welcome Dena Metili Mwangi to the team at Sentry, where she joins from Hackbright Academy and brings a background in Economics, having spent her time playing with data and surveys while working on impact evaluations at the World Bank. At Sentry, she will focus on growth engineering, looking forward to exploring this new role in a dynamic environment.

The Releases feature in Sentry has been expanded to support commit data, enabling users to view new and resolved issues, files changed, authors, and detailed deploy emails in a single overview page. Connecting a repository is done by clicking "Add Repository" in the organization's dashboard and sending a webhook. To add commits to releases, a `refs` attribute is sent along with the release creation request, which Sentry uses to determine the relevant commits based on git history and previous releases. Users can resolve issues via commits by including fixes `<SHORT-ID>` in commit messages or pull requests, allowing Sentry to automatically annotate matching issues with references to the commit or pull request.