Company
Date Published
Author
David Cramer
Word count
660
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Sentry, a developer tool for error tracking and monitoring, experienced significant growth in 2017, with over half-a-million developers using the platform and sending around 300 billion events. The company's team expanded to 56 employees by the end of the year, moving to new offices in San Francisco and Austria. To improve efficiency, Sentry adopted a sprint process, created goal-oriented teams, and hired its first project manager. In terms of features, the company released numerous updates, including official support for React Native, improved releases, and new resolution tools. Sentry also invested heavily in its tools, infrastructure, and practices, adopting new technologies such as Jest, Enzyme, and Prettier. The company's engineers gave over 16 technical talks in nine different countries and hosted two hack weeks, with some projects becoming live features like Relay and @Mentions.