In this article, I’ll argue that APM tools are a trap. They encourage a reactive approach to performance, mask deeper design issues, and come with real costs that often outweigh the benefits. Instead of empowering…

Bugsink is built to help you track and fix errors in your applications as they are deployed in production. But why not just use it in local development too? I do, and it's awesome. Here's why…

Learn how to quickly build disposable Python web servers to solve specific problems, without the overhead of complex configurations. Perfect for debugging and quick testing.

Explore how Python stacktraces with chained exceptions can become confusing puzzles and solve a few puzzles of your own.

I stumbled upon a practice that I call “on-site content farming”, where otherwise non-spammy companies are creating spammy “howto” articles on their actual website.

A rant about the obsession with scalability, and how it can lead to over-engineering and complexity.

Directly seeing the values for local variables in your stacktrace is invaluable for debugging — in fact it's one of the main reasons Bugsink is so useful. However: what actually gets captured depends on...

I'm excited to announce that Bugsink is now in public beta! We've been in private beta for most of September, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.

In the early 2010s, I was a big fan of Sentry. It was a great tool for tracking errors in web applications. At the time, I was making software for law firms, so sending error reports to a third-party service was out of the question, I needed…

Since Bugsink is only available self-hosted (we don't host it for you), we are obsessed with making installation as easy as possible. In an earlier article, we talked about how we do this by removing as many moving parts as possible. In this…

Bugsink, our error tracking tool, is offered exclusively as a self-hosted piece of software. In a world dominated by SaaS solutions, this raises a critical two-part question: can we still persuade people to install their own software at…

In the world of modern software deployment, Docker has become a de facto standard. Its ability to create isolated, consistent environments has made it indispensable for developers and operations teams alike. However, running multiple…

Most software is bloated, meaning: it's taking both a lot more space to store (both in memory and on disk) and more time to run than required…