A tale of bad logging practices, overengineering, and a near-death experience.

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A developer faced severe issues with a self-hosted Sentry instance that filled up rapidly, causing production apps to freeze due to blocking calls. Attempts to move Sentry to the cloud led to high costs and ultimately project failure due to mismanagement of error tracking and lack of proper alert monitoring.

I Almost Died for a Full Sentry Database

If only people sometimes paused to consider that sometimes they’re not right and can mess things up…

Interesting how He did not voice his opinion. By saying something he could’ve saved the project.

Jesus, I am developer my whole life but I really can’t understand how some of us are arrogant and just can’t accepts the feedback to improve themselves. Ruining whole project instead of taking a look and fixing such trivial problem OR ask for help at least if I can’t figure that out.