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Monitoring Blog by Raygun
Company blog · raygun.com/blog · on HN as traskjdwebprogrammingbusiness
Monitoring Blog by Raygun is the company blog at raygun.com, writing about web, programming and business. Since 2016, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 73 times, most often “How Raygun increased throughput 20x with .NET Core over Node.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Raygun's blog mainly for its history of costly software errors, and occasionally for its GDPR and crash-reporting guides. Most links are cited as sources or given without comment.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users.
Most-linked posts?
- How Raygun increased throughput 20x with .NET Core over Node.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-23
- /2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-04-01
- The 14 JavaScript debugging tips you probably didn't know – Raygun2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-31
- Druid.io 9.2 groupby improvements for real time analytics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-13
- Debug JavaScript with These 14 Tips2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-24
- /blog/10-costly-software-errors-history/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-21
What Hacker News says?
We don't soft delete payloads at Raygun ( https://raygun.com ), for the very fact that typically if one of our customers wants to delete something it's because they might have sent something they don't want a third party to have. We have filters and other PII filtering tools etc, but it every now and then something might be sent by mistake. Having said that, you'd be amazed how often folks ask for things to be undel…
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on “Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted”Submitted How Raygun increased throughput 20x with .NET Core over Node.js as a story · 105 points
HN discussionRaygun | Full Stack Developer | Wellington, New Zealand | Full Time At Raygun we build tools for engineering teams that care about creating great software. We track software errors, end user performance, deployment quality and more. We help tens of thousands of developers build better quality software every day, across all stacks and platforms. You can apply here: https://raygun-engineering.workable.com/jobs/252302…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Auto-Scaling and Self-Defensive Services in Golang as a story · 75 points
HN discussionRaygun | Full Stack Developer | Wellington, New Zealand | Full Time At Raygun we build tools for engineering teams that care about creating great software. We track software errors, end user performance, deployment quality and more. We help tens of thousands of developers build better quality software every day, across all stacks and platforms. You can apply here: https://raygun-engineering.workable.com/jobs/252302…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted .NET Core 1.0 release – what you need to know to get started as a story · 64 points
HN discussionRaygun | Developer Evangelist | San Francisco | https://raygun.com | Negotiable As a full time Raygun Developer Evangelist you'll be responsible for spreading the word about Raygun to developers around the world, online and in person. Raygun is growing FAST and needs social coders to help us reach and enable even more developers to build better software. A successful Developer Evangelist has equally strong technical…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Why Browser Monitoring Matters as a story · 7 points
HN discussionRaygun | Seattle, US & Wellington, NZ | Engineering & Sales | Permanent Full time | Onsite ---------------------------- ---------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------------- Raygun gives developers the power to create perfect software experiences on a global scale. ---------------------------- ---------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------------- Https://raygun.com/car…
Comment linking /blog/2016/08/the-best-software-engineering-roles-in-new-zealand/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted How to debug Java using a decompiler as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFabric fits in by providing twitter with a boat load of demographic and app usage data. They may still want that data for advertising purposes. Having said that, I'm personally always wary about using an infrastructure piece for free. If my app relies on something, it's pretty important that it not easily go away. I can't count the HN threads of upset developers, frustrated about something being shuttered that was p…
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on “Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week”Submitted API design guidelines – best practices for building a user-friendly API as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDisclosure: I'm the CEO of Raygun ( https://raygun.com ). Raygun provides Crash Reporting & Real User Monitoring. Across both mobile, backend and desktop (and all mobile, including Xamarin stacks). Love to have you check it out. We've been picking up a bunch of customers who have been getting nervous with Twitter being in a bad shape and worrying about Fabric previously.
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on “Welcoming Fabric to Google”Submitted Debug JavaScript with These 14 Tips as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe've just setup a new office for our company ( https://raygun.com ) in Seattle. We have a small office in SF, but going to building a much larger one up here (we're HQ'd in Wellington, New Zealand) Seattle locals complain a little about all the cranes across the skyline. I see it another way - Seattle is absolutely going to eat SF's lunch if it doesn't change. You already have Microsoft, Boeing, etc here. Google, F…
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on “San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents”Submitted NodeJS 6.0 – We tested it as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMaybe not the space shuttle, but: NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter; crashed or is now inoperable and orbiting the sun due to a bad numerical conversion. ESA’s Ariane 5 Flight 501; manual self destruct triggered after a 64bit number being truncated into 16bits caused faults to be thrown. https://raygun.com/blog/costly-software-errors-history/# I don’t think we should go back to manual operation (as the default, but should…
Comment linking /blog/costly-software-errors-history/
on “Senate passes bill to decrease grid digitization, move toward manual control”Submitted The 14 JavaScript debugging tips you probably didn't know – Raygun as a story · 4 points
HN discussion>After watching that talk, I would have loved somebody in the audience to point out instance like this https://raygun.com/blog/10-costly-software-errors-history/ and ask for Hickey's comments. Needless to say I really don't agree with that list, as history shows the inconsistency, typos, lack basic units and the ability to express them in a computation etc., have been more catastrophic than he believes them to be. F…
Comment linking /blog/10-costly-software-errors-history/
on “Types, and Why You Should Care [video]”Submitted How Raygun increased throughput by 2,000% with .NET Core (over Node.js) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAfter watching that talk, I would have loved somebody in the audience to point out instance like this https://raygun.com/blog/10-costly-software-errors-history/ and ask for Hickey's comments. Needless to say I really don't agree with that list, as history shows the inconsistency, typos, lack basic units and the ability to express them in a computation etc., have been more catastrophic than he believes them to be. An…
Comment linking /blog/10-costly-software-errors-history/
on “Types, and Why You Should Care [video]”Submitted Java performance optimization tips: how to avoid common pitfalls as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI’m JD, co-founder of Raygun ( https://raygun.com ). We’re a paid alternative in crash report logging and user performance metrics. We’ve been operating for years, not reliant on VCs, and are HQ’d in New Zealand. I’ve met with many customers over recent months who have told me quite plainly that they have been told none of their data is to go into any AI/LLM system. This is often coming from legal and many understan…
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on “Sentry new TOS to use data to train AI with no opt-out”Submitted A quick guide to building a lean, clean and fast responsive website as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe ( https://raygun.com ) use a lot of .NET on the server side. We also use golang, node and a few other things, but a lot of .NET, specifically with C#. We're very excited about being able to run on Linux. There's plenty of our back end worker processes that are in C# and being able to move them to Linux will be a big win for us (manageability, cost, etc). I'm not sure what you consider a significant user base, but…
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on “Red Hat, Jetbrains and Unity Join Dotnet Foundation”Submitted The anatomy of robust unit testing (with examples in C#) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI love the idea of a formal hanseikai (反省会). Perhaps a Museum of Software Accidents is called for? https://raygun.com/blog/costly-software-errors-history/
Comment linking /blog/costly-software-errors-history/
on “The Museum of Accidents Offers a Glimpse into Japanese Introspection”Submitted Top web performance killers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThank you for sharing your initial research. Too many AskHN drop a question without hint what the user already looked at. https://raygun.com and https://www.honeybadger.io/ seem to be US, too. https://appsignal.com/ is based in Amsterdam.
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on “Ask HN: Error tracking SaaS hosted in Europe”Submitted TypeScript – is it worth using? as a story · 3 points
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