Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they're doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer's happiness and productivity.
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welcome to changelog and friends our weekly talk show about happy devs just a little happy dev a little happy dev over there big thank you to our friends and our partners at fly.io that is the public cloud that helps productive developers ship learn more at fly.io okay let's get happy Hey, friends. I'm here with Dave Rosenthal, CTO of Sentry.
So, Dave, I know lots of developers know about Sentry, know about the platform because, hey, we use Sentry and we love Sentry. And I know tracing is one of the next big frontiers for Sentry. Why add tracing to the platform? Why tracing and why now?
When we first launched the ability to collect tracing data, we were really emphasizing the performance aspect of that, the kind of application performance monitoring aspect, you know, because you have these things that are spans that measure how long something takes.
And so the natural thing is to try to graph their durations and think about their durations and, you know, warn somebody if the durations are getting too long. But what we've realized is that the performance stuff ends up being just a bunch of gauges to look at. And it's not super actionable.
Sentry is all about this notion of debug ability and actually making it easier to fix the problem, not just sort of giving you more gauges. A lot of what we're trying to do now is focus a little bit less on the sort of just the performance monitoring side of things and turn tracing into a tool that actually aids the debug ability of problems.
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That's the sentiment, right? That is the sentiment. Why? Are you happy, Jared? You're a developer, right? Are you in the 80% rule or are you in the 20% rule? It depends on the minute of the particular day.
Okay. Whether or not I'm happy or unhappy. It's a fleeting thing, happiness. Am I satisfied in my work? Yes. Do I always think that? No. Am I a typical developer? Probably not anymore. We've been podcasters now for a long time. And so I don't hold a nine to five software job, which is probably the people mostly who are being interviewed or surveyed. I wasn't in that survey.
So my sentiment was not in there. No, I did not take the Stack Overflow. We have Abhi Noda here with us from DX. Abhi, did you take the Stack Overflow survey?
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