Ben Vinegar × Distributed Tracing and TypeScript Migrations

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Ben Vinegar about his work with Sentry, their migration to TypeScript, and advice for running JavaScript on other websites.

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Show Notes

• Ben Vinegar
• 00:20 Guest introduction
• 05:58 Seeing bug reports from Sentry
• 07:38 Distributed tracing for full stack developers
• 12:16 Amazon X Ray
• AWS Xray
• 15:32 Using Tracing
• 19:40 Sponsor: Kontent by Kentico
• 20:58 Cloudflare Worker Integration
• 22:30 How does Sentry have open source and a business?
• Heroku
• App Platform
• Media Temple
• Dreamhost
• WordPress Calypso
• 32:30 Sponsor: Hashnode
• 34:07 What is the tech stack of Sentry?
• 38:20 Sentry switching to TypeScript
• Sentry switching to TypeScript
• 44:36 Running JavaScript on other websites
• 51:24 Sponsor: Sentry
• 53:08 Sick Picks

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