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

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Post by rorykoehler »

milani wrote: post #83
wenc wrote: post #72

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…

Why is Splunk among the bests for you? What is the cheaper alternative?

Try Graylog

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Post by atraac »

s4ik4t wrote: post #203

These days we are mostly collaborating on Microsoft Teams.

Do you consider it the best enterprise software though?

I find Teams to be incredibly bad. It's slow, it literally has a typing lag to the point where you type something, press enter to send and then start another message, letters get eaten and sent with previous message. It eats more ram than JetBrains IDE at this point. It has a very bad UX, a lot of (slow) tab switching, pictures do not even load for me most of the time(unless restarted), sometimes it takes up to 10 seconds to mark something as read on the 'Activity' tab which is even more annoying. Insanely bad custom notification system instead of using built in Windows notifications. Add to that terrible API, weird flow of adding apps to conversations and few more things. It grew to become my most hated application that I have to use every day.

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Post by spapas82 »

Although I don't use it anymore since I've changed jobs, for me it would be Appian. For people not familiar with it checkout my description in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23583081

Beyond it's shortcomings it's something I'd gladly pay for (if I needed it of course) because it can't really be replaced by something free / opensource.

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Post by draven »

irrational wrote: post #43

Jetbrains IntelliJ. I use it for html, JS, CSS, Vue, node.js, Python, Java, SQL, etc. I’ve tried visual studio and some other IDEs, but find intellij to be superior in every way.

I used to use it for Scala, sometimes the editor would hang for 30-40s (probably even more but I don't want to sound like I'm exagerating.) I moved back to Emacs+Metals which suits me better (it's hard to leave Emacs after 20+ years of use.)

Nevertheless I still think Intellij is an awesome piece of software and I still start it sometimes to get useful features which are not available in Metals, like inline type annotations for long method chains (really useful when coding with Cats) or "show implicit hints" to see which implicits are used / missing and where.)

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Post by shawabawa3 »

axaxs wrote: post #27

Does VSCode count? That's the first IDE to make me switch from Vim. I was reluctant at first, but now I feel lost without it. For saas, probably Workday. I really enjoy it compared to what we had used prior.

Does a free open source code editor count as enterprise software?

...no

Just because Microsoft wrote it doesn't make it enterprise

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Post by smabie »

draven wrote: post #214
irrational wrote: post #43

Jetbrains IntelliJ. I use it for html, JS, CSS, Vue, node.js, Python, Java, SQL, etc. I’ve tried visual studio and some other IDEs, but find intellij to be superior in every way.

I used to use it for Scala, sometimes the editor would hang for 30-40s (probably even more but I don't want to sound like I'm exagerating.) I moved back to Emacs+Metals which suits me better (it's hard to leave Emacs after 20+ years of use.) Nevertheless I still think Intellij is an awesome piece of software and I still start it sometimes to get useful features which are not available in Metals, like inline type anno…

Intellij is awesome, and I use it for Scala with Emacs keybindings as well but like you said, the performance is just atrocious. Memory leaks, stutters, hangs, bad latency, you name it. Every Scala dev team I've been on constantly curses at Intellij. And yet, no one switches, because the functionality it provides is so good.

I never could get ensime to work, but I should try metals.

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Post by danielbarla »

axaxs wrote: post #33
satvikpendem wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use the Neo Vim extension, it uses real neovim? Not to be confused with VSCodeVim.

I actually don't user either. I don't much see the point of Vim weaseled into another environment, but I'm happy to listen and be convinced otherwise.

I guess I'm the opposite, probably because I've learned to use Vim not as a standalone editor / IDE, but as a preferred set of keybindings and editing within other environments. I hear a similar argument to yours all the time - specifically that Vim as a plugin is not quite enough - but don't fully understand it.

Essentially, to me it's all about ergonomics of editing. Hands straight on the "home row" of the keyboard, and with modal editing, almost everything is a single keypress away. To me, this feels a lot faster and easier than reaching for the mouse (or arrow keys) every five seconds, and I get the additional benefit that my core editing commands stay consistent across different environments (where I have a Vim plugin, that is). I leave all the fancier, IDE-specific stuff (e.g. refactoring, etc) on their default IDE bindings, and learn them. It's a good compromise, I'm not sure why people don't like it.

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Post by PeterStuer »

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #188
PeterStuer wrote: post #169

Surprised by the answers given here. If I hear 'enterprise', I'm thinking SAP, IBM, Oracle. SAS etc., not some dev environments or niche tools.

Yep, RHEL would be an example of open source enterprise software.

Technically yes, but I would tend to think more towards applications such as ERP, CRM, SRM, Accounting etc. rather than infrastructure or middleware level software.

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Post by manicdee »

coblers wrote: post #204
davedx wrote: post #200

JIRA. It's powerful, customizable, flexible and drives workflows and productivity across millions of companies around the world. It's the SAP of issue tracking. Despite all the baggage, they still try continuously to improve the UX of the software so it stays relevant and relatively usable. There's definitely problems with it (its performance can be awful and require dedicated server clusters to keep it up at larger…

It's crazy how different opinions are on JIRA. I think it's the worst tool I'm forced to use - and have been - at all my dev jobs. It's slow, sluggish, the UX is horrible and it gets in my way. A lot of dev teams that are outside of product/project management claws simply opt for using whatever simple kanban board there might be(Trello, for example).

Every problem you mentioned with a Jira is some decision your IT folks made. The same every time I hear people telling me how awful the software is: they complain of autocratic workflows, forms being slow, forms being complex and having so many mandatory fields that they can’t get anything done.

It’s all due to local configuration, some IT kiddo sees all these bells and whistles and levers to pull, so they turn them all on thinking more features is better.

In the meantime the most efficient workflow I have has six states (planning, execution, UAT, deployment, warranty, closed) and it works just fine and stays out of my way.

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