courtlistener VS Sentry

- https://github.com/freelawproject/bigcases2/

Languages: Python, Django, JavaScript, Browser extensions

Free Law Project is a small non-profit that uses technology to make the legal sector better. We operate at a big scale (about 300M items in our DB and a lot of traffic), and need help scaling, operating, expanding, fixing, modernizing, and maintaining our stack.

One high priority project is adding a CDN to our site due to the crush we just got on the latest Epstein docs:

Background: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/04/epstein-document-crash-docu...

Issue: https://github.com/freelawproject/courtlistener/issues/917

If you have experience in rolling out a CDN, that's great.

If not, we also have a volunteer backlog where we are always looking for help with our website, browser extensions, etc: https://github.com/orgs/freelawproject/projects/31/views/1

At this point, if you are a Python/Django/Browser extension dev, we could probably use your help!

Get in touch: info at free dot law

If anybody has made it this far, all of the code for this is open source, and we'd certainly welcome your thoughts and ideas. I'm guessing lots of other people have crossed this bridge (DRF and HTMX are both quite popular), but I didn't see any other good guides, so hopefully this can be a beginning.

First, sign up for a free account at https://sentry.io. Create a new project and make note of your DSN (Data Source Name).

Using APM tools like NewRelic, Sentry, Datadog, etc to monitor the performance of your application and while you're on it, they can help you identify N+1 queries.

However, ensuring the reliability and performance of your Next.js app is equally crucial. That’s where Sentry comes into play. Combined with Sentry, an industry-leading error monitoring platform, Next.js empowers developers to proactively identify and resolve issues that may arise in their applications. In this article, we’ll explore how to integrate Sentry into your Next.js project for effective error monitoring and performance optimization.

Sentry: Error monitoring for applications, including APIs. Also offers application performance monitoring (APM).

Indeed, webapps are not immune to distribution problems. Wayward and invasive browser extensions are a clear threat, as are 3rd-party dependencies (and their dependencies) loaded at runtime. Which is why companies like https://sentry.io exist. I think the difference is that webapps are "distributable by default" and it takes real work to break this. Versus having local desktop apps which require work to distribute. A potent example of the power of defaults.

Sentry produces nothing of value? You don't value an open source error tracking and performance monitoring platform? https://github.com/getsentry/sentry

> You invent something, and then immediately turn it into a cheap commodity by releasing it for free.

Exactly. A 71-line python script https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/commit/3c2e87573d3bd16f6... was groundbreaking when it came out and the fact that it springboarded into a startup is commendable.

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Sentry - Open Source Alternative For Error Tracking

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