We recently migrated JavaScript/SourceMap processing to Rust where we were hitting a lock contention problem in our processing infrastructure that kept people up for a few days. What happened, why and how did we solve it?
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Arpad's interested in all things Rust. At Sentry he's responsible for the processing pipeline and Symbolicator. Outside of work, he maintains several open source projects and contributes to the Rust compiler ecosystem.
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Sentry helps every developer diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of their code, and we need to deliver high quality stack traces in order to do so. In this blog post, we want to explain why source maps are insufficient for solving this problem, the challenges we faced, and how we eventually pulled it off by parsing JavaScript.