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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