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

#41

Cisco's Duo Security MFA product. It Just Works™. Which you'd just take for granted with something as simple as MFA, but we had two previous enterprise products that were garbage. Duo just does its thing, gets out of the way, and I can keep working. It is one of those things you appreciate because you never think about it.

Since the web interface now supports U2F and Touch ID, I agree. But on the command-line I'm still stuck with Duo Push, which feels clunky by comparison.

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

#42

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 compar…

Can you expand? As someone who maintains a large-ish prometheus/grafana installation on prems I don't know what we're missing! We have a couple of custom metrics that we developed in prometheus and the OSS plugins/dashboards look great.

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

#45

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.

My understanding is that intellij is the main IDE and other ones are “crippled” versions of a Intellij. In other words, jetbrains really only builds one IDE, but disabled parts of it to create the “sub” IDEs.

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

#47

Cisco's Duo Security MFA product. It Just Works™. Which you'd just take for granted with something as simple as MFA, but we had two previous enterprise products that were garbage. Duo just does its thing, gets out of the way, and I can keep working. It is one of those things you appreciate because you never think about it.

1Password with Duo Security is insanely great.

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

#48

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

+1 for Datadog. I can't comprehend how they scale to accommodate the data we send them, let alone everyone else. Literally tens of thousands of data points per second, around the clock, for years. Thousands and thousands of unique keys. And it's all queryable instantaneously. All for about 1/4 of a developer's salary.
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