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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.
Yeah I heard they are pretty good but too bad they don't have mobile access for me. Do you have a need to access tools like Datadog on your mobile phone?
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/datadog/id1391380318 Android (Play store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.datadog.ap...
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Sorry I just picked one datacenter, so, 1/5h of the hosts or 15k metrics per host with some rudimentary math! Our data lives on each datacenter only and then we query cross datacenter via grafana when we need.
Alright. More data in total but less per server because it's distributed. We run a pair of servers both storing everything. It's the least that can be done to have any resiliency. I would love to distribute the data, preferably per continent, but prometheus didn't have a good story on sharding. Running independent dataset is worthless in practice without the ability to aggregate. Also, the more servers the more expen…
There are a couple of articles about sharding and federation with prometheus, dunno if they existed when you tried it.
For us our problems are usually local to a datacenter. Having a dropdown where you can pick the datacenter has proven good enough. It is unlikely that we have a global issue in a service.
Sorry if unclear but we have our own datacenters, our prometheus VMs are essentially free in the grand scheme of things considering the number of compute we have.
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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…
GrabCAD. It's free, simple cloud-based version control for CAD files. I don't think they actually offer an enterprise (on-prem) version anymore but I would still consider it enterprise software. The only alternatives are network shares filled with v1_v2_final_edited filenames and very expensive, SAP-level of complexity and JIRA-style approval workflows. Unfortunately they are owned by Stratasys, the Oracle of 3D prin…
I was honestly extremely hopeful when OnShape hit the market. Granted it was still a proprietary tool, but felt it had the tooling and integrations to bring CAD systems into the "modern era". Then they crippled their free offering, removing it's discrimination from tools like Fusion. And now with their purchase by PTC, I have no hope in it making any further waves in the CAD space.
GrabCAD. It's free, simple cloud-based version control for CAD files. I don't think they actually offer an enterprise (on-prem) version anymore but I would still consider it enterprise software. The only alternatives are network shares filled with v1_v2_final_edited filenames and very expensive, SAP-level of complexity and JIRA-style approval workflows. Unfortunately they are owned by Stratasys, the Oracle of 3D prin…
I cannot agree more with this comment. CAD software is still so dominated by proprietary systems that maintain their own version control and feature set. And since all the major players offer a "suite" of tools, there's no incentive to seamlessly interact between products. You spend so much time trying to figure out how you are going work with importing a neutral export (meaning you've dissected the data from its ver…
I'm sure many people on HN have experience meeting a one-person self-taught software team in a small company that developed their own version control system called "copying folders". In mechanical CAD, half of the industry is at that level, but it's even worse because your shard libraries may be updated irreversibly and without notification when you don't intend, or not updated when you intend, depending on such factors as the order in which you loaded your projects.
I was sad enough that GrabCAD was purchased by Stratasys, but at least it's plausible that it exists for a while. I didn't know OnShape was purchased by PTC. I was also really hopeful and play around with it about once a year. It's always missing something I need, but was getting close, and some of the features they add are really innovative. They are also honest about what features are missing.
On the other hand, I still have a soft spot for Pro-E since it was my first MCAD package and to this day miss some of its parametric features (but certainly not its interface).
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I cannot agree more with this comment. CAD software is still so dominated by proprietary systems that maintain their own version control and feature set. And since all the major players offer a "suite" of tools, there's no incentive to seamlessly interact between products. You spend so much time trying to figure out how you are going work with importing a neutral export (meaning you've dissected the data from its ver…
It's obvious to anyone with exposure to software that the whole industry is 25 years behind in version control. It exists in large companies, but as a JIRA or SAP like system, usually with engineers fighting for the right to work with local files. It does not exist as standard industry practice that everyone follows. I'm sure many people on HN have experience meeting a one-person self-taught software team in a small…
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I cannot agree more with this comment. CAD software is still so dominated by proprietary systems that maintain their own version control and feature set. And since all the major players offer a "suite" of tools, there's no incentive to seamlessly interact between products. You spend so much time trying to figure out how you are going work with importing a neutral export (meaning you've dissected the data from its ver…
It's obvious to anyone with exposure to software that the whole industry is 25 years behind in version control. It exists in large companies, but as a JIRA or SAP like system, usually with engineers fighting for the right to work with local files. It does not exist as standard industry practice that everyone follows. I'm sure many people on HN have experience meeting a one-person self-taught software team in a small…
As for the features and suggestions, could you please writ them to https://grabcad.com/groups/grabcad-community-user-group where all the PMs and related engineers follow and improve the product.