At Sentry we handle hundreds of thousands of events a second — from tiny metric to huge memory dump. What started as a small Django application had to be scaled up to support global points of presence, lower latency and significantly higher throughput. This talk walks through our experience building a Rust based ingestion service to replace our Python one, the lessons we have learned and where we made changes from the original design.
Armin Ronacher is a Principal Architect at Sentry and is the creator of the Flask web framework for Python. He has worked on various Open Source and commercial projects, largely on the backend for the last 10+ years. Prior to joining Sentry, he was a Consultant and a Systems Architect on the Fireline project at Fireteam, leading many Open Source projects like the Flask microframework for Python, the Jinja2 template engine and many more. He has been credited on Batman Arkham Asylum, Halo The Master Chief Collection, and other games. His field of expertise is in large scale backend infrastructure, networking and online services and API design.
