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November 2020

The Future of Frontend

Application Monitoring is more than just a failsafe for frontend development — it’s a competitive advantage that improves collaboration, code, customer happiness, and your own smug sense of self-satisfaction. Learn: 1) Error Monitoring 2) Performance Monitoring 3) Release Health 4) Ecosystem Keynote by David Cramer, CTO & Co-founder, Sentry.io. From Apdex to Web Vitals, we spoke to experts from experts at Cloudflare, Next.js/Vercel, and Etsy to learn what the future has in store for web technologies.

Investigating Performance Regressions with Trends

To us, dogfooding means using Sentry to improve Sentry. Here in this article, you’ll see how we used Performance to improve our search infrastructure. Recently, we extended our performance monitoring solution support to PHP and Serverless. We’re bringing it to Ruby and Java + Springboot soon too. But as some of you may have noticed, there’s also a new view in Performance, Trends. Trends shows you the most improved and regressed transactions in relation to releases.

Getting Started with Web Vitals

To improve front-end performance in your application, it’s important to understand what kind of problems users are experiencing. They may be encountering slow load times, seeing unexpected shifts, or having trouble interacting with UI components. The question is, how bad is it? Is it perpetual-rage-click bad? Is it ditch-your-app bad? Is it rant-on-Twitter bad?