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> Sentry abandoned open source

sentry from github works most of the time, but the setup process is such a PITA.

For what it’s worth I’m not super happy that it’s so painful. It also makes the DX for Sentry developers harder than I would like. I can’t promise improvements but it’s definitely something that’s a shared concern.

Generally speaking though we deploy our git repo to prod multiple times a day. So if you contribute changes, they deploy fast :)

No shade here at all, but I always figured this was intentional. One legitimate way to get people to pay for OSS is to make it a real nightmare to self-host.

edit: Just wanted to add, I say this as a happy Sentry paying user for more than a decade now.

It's not intentional. We actually held back more complicated features for years to make it easy to self-host (e.g. only used Postgres and Redis as data stores for a long time).

The complication really just comes from the new capabilities we've added, and the dependencies that come with that. I suppose also our sophistication in hosting the platform has evolved (as the scale has increased), and so the tooling we use to manage it has become more complicated.

Kudos! And I get it, it's hard to do really cool and powerful things when large amounts of data are involved without involving better (and possibly more complicated) data stores.

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