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Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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post #3

I don't know if it counts as enterprise software but I use Jetbrains' products everyday. Goland, IntelliJ and PyCharm are great tools.

Why use 3 different ones when IntelliJ can do all of the features of the listed editors? PyCharm is IntelliJ locked with Python plugin, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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post #3

I don't know if it counts as enterprise software but I use Jetbrains' products everyday. Goland, IntelliJ and PyCharm are great tools.

Why use 3 different ones when IntelliJ can do all of the features of the listed editors? PyCharm is IntelliJ locked with Python plugin, etc.

I've heard that before but I'm skeptic about if it's exactly the same.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why use 3 different ones when IntelliJ can do all of the features of the listed editors? PyCharm is IntelliJ locked with Python plugin, etc.

I've heard that before but I'm skeptic about if it's exactly the same.

It's the same thing if you pay for IntelliJ Pro, then the IDE supports every language and every plugin.

Otherwise the free edition has a number of missing things and it's blocking the installation of plugins that could somewhat compensate.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Datadog - the amount of observability we have in our infrastructure is insane. I can find out what’s wrong within a few seconds.

+1 on datadog.

It's crazy how easy it was to setup and cover all our infra (AWS, ELB, postgresql, cassandra, kafka, haproxy, nginx, etc...). The tool paid for itself with the infra optimizations we could find in the first month of usage.

It makes me sad when I'm forced to work with graphite/prometheus/grafana in my newer company. These can't gather half the metrics and their charting capabilities are so bad in comparison.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Two: - UltraEdit. What Photoshop is to images, UltraEdit is to text. The weird thing is, it’s not a super flashy or even immediately intuitive tool. But once you get the hang of it, it never fails to deliver. - Excel. It’s insane the breadth of stuff you can do with it. And as a tool, it’s equally handy and “oh my God this will save me so much work” for a school teacher as it is for a data analyst and stock broker. I…

Can you give an example of why UltraEdit is better than emacs? Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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post #7

Excel, Box, and Zoom. Would vote for Cloudability as well, but that's not something that I use anywhere near every day.

Excel is a pain. It's annoying to open - if I already have Excel open and try open another Excel document I often have to click into a cell in the currently opened Excel document for the new document to open.

It's also a pain closing as it prompts do I want to save. Saving as a CSV is a pain, it takes two prompts to save as a CSV.

File recovery is also a pain.

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