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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.
Also you can't open two Excel files with the same name.
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.
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.
Beyond Compare. I find this tool very very useful when you have lots of integration job. If you have an enterprise version, then you can do stuff like compare and merge files across two servers, compare PDFs, ZIPs, JAR, and obviously plain text files. This is a tool for which I definitely ask for an Enterprise Version license whenever I join a new organization.
PagerDuty is generally pretty good, but I haven't used VictorOps or OpsGenie so I can't compare.
I’ve helped manage both PagerDuty and OpsGenie at a certain employer, and while PagerDuty seemed to mostly kinda semi sorta work, there was a lot of klunky aspects to the system. When we switched to OpsGenie, it was like all the things we liked about PagerDuty were still present, but we didn’t have any of the pain points. Moreover, there were additional features that made it even nicer.
Imagine how good it feels when you stop banging your head against the wall, and then realize you’ve been banging your head against a wall for the past few years.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the PagerDuty guys and everything they’ve done as pioneers in this field, but I much prefer OpsGenie.
In fact, OpsGenie is such low-touch that we now have many fewer people who are involved in the day to day management of it, each team can manage the things they really care about, and the rest of us can just get on with our other work.
Things that we pay for. SQL Server : it's not cheap, but it's genuinely good. Live query plans, clustered columnstore indices, linked servers, rich SQL features. Tableau : more than a dashboarding tool, it's actually a really good multivariate exploratory data analysis (EDA) tool. You can use it to visualize multidimensional data easily. I do use Jupyter (seaborn, plotly) and R (ggplot2) which are good, but Tableau l…
Trace32 & the Lauterbach JTAG. Expensive, but intuitive, scriptable, and performant.
Datadog - the amount of observability we have in our infrastructure is insane. I can find out what’s wrong within a few seconds.
-1 datadog. Unless you have an SRE on payroll, it's obtuse, expensive as hell and you can never tell what exactly you're paying for. I don't like it much. It took a LOT of man hours to set up.