We just released the Sentry SDK for Unity 4.0.0 , our biggest update yet. This major release brings comprehensive gaming console support, structured logging, us...
Hello! This past fall, I decided to take some time to work on Git’s documentation. I’ve been thinking about working on open source docs for a long time – usually if I think the documentation for something could be improved, I’ll write a blog post or a zine or something. But this time I wondered: cou...
In the near future, high-leverage developers look like async-first managers running parallel AI coding agents. The skills that make someone a strong tech lead or manager translate directly to AI coding - because at scale, it stops being just a context problem and becomes a management problem.
“Neon’s branching gave us the last missing piece in our RISE (Robust Isolated Staging Environment): true database isolation. The services that touched schema changes or write-heavy paths could never share a database safely. Now every sandbox gets its own isolated Postgres DB whenever required” (Joe ...
The technical and practical rationale for a clear separation between these domains. The post Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation appeared first on Spotify Engineering.
This year I am reclaiming my attention span away from my iPhone. Lately, I have noticed that while reading or working, I reach for my phone to check email / BlueSky every couple of minutes. I tried to force myself to focus on work / book by using a timer; do not touch the phone until the timer is up...
I was in Japan with my mom and my son. The country had recently opened up again to tourism and I took the opportunity to take my son on a trip we were supposed to take pre-pandemic that was cancelled due to a typhoon. My mom tagging along this time was a bonus. It is nice to be in a place that isn’t...
No, this is not another rant about npm’s security issues. Abstraction is the cornerstone of modern software engineering. Reusing logic and building higher-level solutions from lower-level building blocks is what makes all the technological wonders around us possible. Imagine if every time anyone wro...
Authors: Victoria Melnikova, Head of New Business, and Travis Turner, Tech EditorTopics: Developer Products, AI, Devtools startup advisoryI spent the year in San Francisco, having face-to-face conversations with founders you already follow. Here are the top pieces of advice to take into 2026.I spent...
As our applications grow from simple side projects into complex distributed systems with many users, the “old way” of console.log debugging isn’t going to hold ...
Transforming your static engineering drawings or scanned maps into interactive map layers is now easier than ever. Upload georeferenced PDFs directly to the Cloud.
What a difference a year makes.When Netflix secured WWE Raw, a three-hour weekly live broadcast with more than three decades of history, it marked a turning point. Raw is chaos in motion: fan-fueled, unpredictable, impossible to rehearse. And now Netflix has to make it flawless. More than a licensin...
Cursor is an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) based on the Visual Studio Code codebase. It comes with a multi-agent interface and the Composer model for fast, agentic coding while keeping a familiar editor workflow with project-aware chat, code completion, and inline edits. In thi...
Authors: Evgeniy Valyaev, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech EditorTopics: Developer Products, AI, DX, Performance, Design, JavaScript, Accessibility, LLMsDevelopers don’t need more tools—they need fewer, higher-quality ones. This piece distills research and field evidence into six principle...
End-to-end tests are the best way to test your webapp, but they're flaky and annoying to write. I'm trying a new agentic approach that fixes the issue.
Bored yet? 2025 was the fifth year in a row (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021) that Sentry gave a pretty hefty chunk of change to the maintainers of the Open Source softw...
I recently ported the Hardcaml_step_testbench library, one of the libraries that we use at Jane Street for Hardcaml simulations, from using monads to using algebraic effects, a new OCaml 5 feature. This blog post walks through what algebraic effects are, why you should consider using them in lieu of...