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Rollbar | https://rollbar.com | Budapest, remote Europe | Senior Software Engineer, Full-stack About Rollbar: * We're a ~30-person team (SF, Budapest, remote US and Europe) with a mission to help developers build software quickly and painlessly * We help tens of thousands of developers find and fix errors faster. * Our backend handles billions of errors with low latency and high reliability * Our front-end allows developers to discover and drill down across millions of errors in real-time * Our customers are some of the best engineering teams in the world, including Twilio, Salesforce, and Twitch * Our values are honesty, transparency, pragmatism, and dependability We're currently hiring for: - Senior Software Engineer Please apply via: https://rollbar.com/careers/

Full disclosure: I'm a long time sponsor (https://rollbar.com/) and supporter of Code Sponsor. It's a fantastic resource for the Open Source community, notably the smaller, independent projects. Supporting OS sustainability while generating awareness for Rollbar was a total no-brainer decision. The transparency in the system between sponsor and project owner is exceptional. They've built an interesting, novel solution to help ease any burden felt, maintaining and growing a project. Bravo!

I'm going to throw out a recommendation for Rollbar[0]. Of the tools I used, I found it's great and providing the info necessary to quickly track down and fix errors. It's also got some useful tools for triage built in. [0] https://rollbar.com/

In addition to the excellent services mentioned in the article, I'd like to recommend Rollbar (http://rollbar.com/) -- we've been using them for almost a year and have come to rely on them exclusively. Their major selling points for us were GitHub integration and filtering by user-agent/other strings (baiduspider tormented us for a while), plus their packages for logging server-side errors (we use them for Node.js). Their price point is also very generous for startups :)

Yeah, competition in this market is insane. Throwing out the one we use: http://ratchet.io - soon to be re-branded http://Rollbar.com Hopefully these products keep improving and we end up with the best of the best rising to the top. Good luck guys!

I recommend looking at your frontend console logs for instances of type errors a la https://rollbar.com/blog/top-10-javascript-errors/

I can't tell you how many times I've heard this from customers. There have been so many times when a customer thought a bug was their fault or expected behavior. That's even more surprising because our customers are developers themselves. Automated error monitoring is becoming more and more important, especially when you don't have the time or resources to add proper integration or platform testing to the project. This is one of the reasons we built https://rollbar.com Fyi - I'm one of the Founders

You make some valid points on DI, linting, etc. but your first point on Typescript itself not providing value is pure FUD. Typescript catches a TON of bugs and the ones that are the most frequent https://rollbar.com/blog/top-10-javascript-errors/. That we as an industry ship code (Javascript) to production that still has bugs that are so easy to catch at compile time does not reflect well on us, and your comment really does not help in this regard. What is your recommendation to ensure we catch more bugs at compile time rather than letting users find out that their application doesn't work?

One thing this glances over is that you should have something monitoring your production systems to make sure that they are running correctly. To start with get something to monitor errors/exceptions and email you. To name a few services: https://airbrake.io/ https://rollbar.com/ https://github.com/errbit/errbit (can be hosted on Heroku for free) Also make sure that you have accessible logs that log useful information (timestamps, the user making the request, unique request ID). Then use syslog or a SaaS service to aggregate logs from all servers in one place, and keep them for as long as you can.

How do you see yourself stacking up against Rollbar https://rollbar.com which has a free tier and unlimited users for paid plans? What makes your product more valuable?

Also, check out https://rollbar.com for free error monitoring. (Ps. I'm one of the founders :)

It looks nice. How is this similar to / different from iDoneThis? visually it seems nicer, but does it have the same email integration and daily updates? (I noticed weekly, is this configurable?) The only reason I can see for us to NOT use it, is because we already use rollbar[1] (for tracking js errors) and rollout[2] (for feature flags). The name 'Rollcall' will create way too much confusion for us. Sounds silly, I know, but it does have an impact. [1] https://rollbar.com/ [2] https://github.com/FetLife/rollout

There are lots of options in this space - tools like LogRocket can record a whole user session, capture all the interactions and errors, and let you watch a replay in order to see how the error came about, and what the user did afterwards. We use it at work (also a B2B web app, no affiliation with LogRocket) and it's a very useful too. You have plenty of other options - Rollbar and Sentry come to mind, though I've never used either, but have heard good things about both. Lastly, if you have back-end monitoring already then you might want to see if that solution has a front-end integration. Datadog does, for example (also a Datadog customer, but again no affiliation with them). Warning: Datadog is powerful but can be a bit overwhelming with features, I probably wouldn't start there if you just want some front-end error tracking. https://logrocket.com https://rollbar.com/ https://sentry.io/welcome/ https://datadog.com

Have you ever worked in a large engineering organization full of engineers with varying degrees of experience all trying to accomplish the same goal? I can't imagine anyone has ever tried to do engineering at scale (people wise) and did not find the value in static typing. It's why startups eventually moved off RoR once they started scaling. It's why there is such a large push to type JavaScript (have you seen the rollbar article about the top 10 errors in JavaScript? All but one have to do with types: https://rollbar.com/blog/top-10-javascript-errors/), it's why Facebook created Hack, and outside of parentheses repulsion, it's probably why so few large projects have been written in a LISP or LISP descendant. Python is great for small: small teams, small organizations, small projects with a few dedicated tasks, small scripting tasks. Most people aren't trying to take anything away from python here in the comments save a few irrational responses. *again want to stress in my comment when I speak of scale I mean scaling people wise: more organizational structures in your company, more engineers, more collaboration between teams.

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Crash reporting services are generally not free; once you pass a pretty low level of usage you pay to keep using them. Ex: https://sentry.io/pricing/ https://rollbar.com/pricing/

In https://getprobe.io (built in Ruby) we use: AWS (RDS, S3, ECS, EC2) https://www.mailgun.com for emails https://rollbar.com for error reporting https://stripe.com for payments https://gsuite.google.com for email, calendar, sheets https://slack.com (free) for chat https://trello.com (free) for keeping track of things

And then you have charts like this https://rollbar.com/blog/top-10-javascript-errors/ 9 out of the 10 most common JavaScript errors are around types, hence why such a large push to type JavaScript (TS, Flow, Elm, ReasonML)

We use Rollbar for our crash reporting. They support GDPR. Links: - https://rollbar.com/blog/preparing-for-gdpr-privacy/ - https://rollbar.com/compliance/gdpr/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126029

Here are some of the interesting things coming to the Bitbucket platform: Code search: https://sourcegraph.com/ Code quality: https://www.bithound.io/, https://www.codacy.com/ Code analytics: http://stiltsoft.com/ Deployment: http://cloudcannon.com/, https://platform.sh/ Crash and exception handling: https://rollbar.com/ Rapid integration: http://www.wittified.com/ Cloud IDE: https://codeanywhere.com/, https://codeanywhere.com/

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