The Crash Course for Continuous Code Improvement

Rollbar's crash course for continuous code improvement is a combination demo and training workshop designed to introduce Rollbar as a product and service. It involves hands-on training with the Rollbar platform, focusing on implementing the product, using it effectively, and user training.

David Waller is a solutions engineer at Rollbar who typically focuses on the post-sales customer journey, including implementing the product and providing user training.

The agenda for Rollbar's crash course includes an introductory portion with a slide deck, a discussion of the problem space, a light demo, educational content, a workshop, and open-ended Q&A time.

The Rollbar crash course is scheduled for two hours, but the main content is expected to take just over an hour, leaving ample time for Q&A.

Rollbar aims to solve the problem of bugs in code by providing continuous code improvement through real-time error monitoring, contextual grouping, and stack trace analysis. This helps developers quickly identify and resolve code issues.

Rollbar's error monitoring feature involves reporting errors, exceptions, and other problems in code in real-time to the Rollbar platform. The platform then performs further analysis, providing contextual grouping and stack trace analysis to pinpoint the true root cause of issues.

Rollbar integrates with the development process by providing real-time visibility into errors, machine learning-powered grouping algorithms, and AI-assisted workflows. These features help developers quickly identify, group, and resolve issues, improving the overall development process.

Benefits of using Rollbar include improved deploy success rates, faster iterations through releases, reduced time spent resolving bugs, better code quality, happier developers, and a better overall product experience.

Rollbar supports different stages of the development cycle by providing visibility into errors from lower environments like test environments up to production. It also helps customer support agents by notifying them of user-experienced problems, which provides more information to developers for fixing issues.

The Rollbar React SDK is a library designed to simplify the process of integrating Rollbar with React applications. It provides a more natural process for React developers to set up Rollbar and monitor their applications for errors.