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Dropbox 16 Jul 2013 | 08:01 pm
I’m excited to say that today is my first day at Dropbox! I realized last month that was I getting burnt out with the startup culture, and decided I needed to make a change. The change was either goi...
The Business of Sentry 16 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
Two weeks ago I attended EuroPython. It’s one of my favorite events of the year (likely because of the amazing venue it’s been at for the last three of those). This year I gave a talk on how we operat...
You Should Be Using Nginx + UWSGI 28 Jun 2013 | 01:50 am
After lots of experimentation (between disqus.com and getsentry.com), I content with saying that uwsgi should be the standard in the Python world. Combine it with nginx and you’re able to get a lot of...
Making Django 1.5 compatible with django-bcrypt 7 May 2013 | 08:43 pm
Last night I took the opportunity to upgrade all of getsentry.com to Django 1.5. While most things were fairly trivial to sort out, we hit one less obvious (and pretty critical) bug during the migrati...
A Weekend In Russia 27 Feb 2013 | 01:06 pm
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Russia’s first ever PyCon. If you’re not familiar, PyCon is the name used for several Python programming conferences. The event itself was set at a ho...
Moving On 12 Feb 2013 | 12:37 am
For the last three years I’ve been at Disqus helping to scale the infrastructure, as well as the engineering team. During that time I’ve had the opportunity to work on some amazing things, with some a...
Dependency Graphs and Package Versioning 29 Jan 2013 | 01:37 pm
Today I had the unfortunate pleasure of attempting to upgrade a dependency on getsentry.com. The package I was upgrading contained a bugfix that I needed, so this was actually something I wanted, and ...
Being Wrong on the Internet 24 Jan 2013 | 01:00 pm
First, some context. I forget how, but a GitHub project came across my Twitter stream. I clicked into it, immediately to see it was something that I disagreed with (on its intent). In turn, I posted s...
Moving Sentry from Heroku to Hardware 31 Aug 2012 | 08:59 am
Update: Don’t decide against Heroku just because you’ve read my blog. It makes some things (especially prototyping) very easy, and with certain kinds of applications it can work very well. I’ve talke...
