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

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