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This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times | Aug 2023

> Aren't they slower or about as slow as C++, which is notorious for being frustratingly slow, especially for local, non-distributed builds?

Yes. Significantly slower. The last rust crate I pulled [0] took as long to build as the unreal engine project I work on.

[0] https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator/

Launch HN: Highlight.io (YC W23) – Open-source, full stack web app monitoring | Jul 2023

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Sentry’s license change on the fork was a mistake. It has been fixed though: https://github.com/getsentry/rrweb/pull/92

The fork exists as a ‘buffer’ to get some changes (features or bug fixes) out without the need to couple with the npm release of rrweb itself. Sentry engineers have several PRs in upstream rrweb merged and the goal is to increase the upstream contributions and close the gap between our fork and upstream. We’re currently porting our changes from v1 to the v2 branch.

I believe Sentry has made financial contributions to rrweb but directly to a maintainer. I'll let others who know details to comment on this. I'm sure more contributions will be done, as this is very much in the interest of Sentry anyway.

Worth noting, Sentry has been making larger contributions to OSS every year, as the company grows:

2021: https://blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave-154-999-dollars-and-89-c... 2022: https://blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave-260-028-dollars-to-open-...

In addition to that, there are contributions to open source done in the form of code that is, open source, such as the symbolication service: https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator and many others: https://github.com/getsentry/

What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? | Mar 2021

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Disclosure: I work at Sentry.

> My personal term for this sort of "We're OK with little people using the software but we don't want any competition"

Large companies are free to use Sentry. There are Fortune 50 companies running Sentry at scale internally without paying us a cent. That's totally cool.

You're also free to compete with Sentry. You're not free to repackage Sentry for the purposes of competing with us. There are lots of competing error and performance monitoring products out there that do perfectly fine without it.

I should also note that many components of Sentry are distributed with OSI-approved licenses that you are free to use to compete with us. For example, our Symbolication service (https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator) ships with an MIT license, and it's an important part of our business.

Ask HN: Anybody running serious Rust web application in production? | Aug 2019

Take a look at the symbolicator service from sentry: https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator

Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust | Jun 2019

We (sentry.io) use actix-web (though not yet 1.0) for our symbolicator project. It’s the service that handles all of our native events for symbolication. That’s for minidump processing, dwarf/pdb based symbolication and much more.

Couldn’t be happier with it. It’s super fast and stable and does it’s job really well. We run three machines for it and it didn’t manage to go past 10% CPU usage yet.

Code is here for the curious: https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator