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

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Post by mrweasel »

wenc wrote: post #94
milani wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

For an on-prem general purpose logging server, it's fast and easy to maintain. The query engine supports fairly complex queries. Did I mention it's fast? Plus it's an industry standard so it's an easier sell in the enterprise. It's also actually not that expensive at low data volumes -- prices are comparable to Sumologic. Cheaper alternatives? You can roll your own logging server with fluentd and a database. Some fol…

The minute you say “on-prem” a surprising number of sales people stop talking and just looks terrified.

Running and managing an ELK stack is just a hassle and a managing nightmare conpared to Splunk. Humio is a great alternative, if you need something cheaper, but you have to give up a lot of features.

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Post by iamwil »

kristopolous wrote: post #119

I've tried not to be impressed by airtable, but their on the fly API documentation generators for how you configure things still feels like black magic. Every time I want to be dismissive of the product, it's exceeded what I believed to be an extremely unlikely to meet set of expectations. They've clearly got some pretty competent people. I'd love to draft them somehow Beyond that, the services of namecheap Ava digit…

what is an on the fly API documentation generator? Is it that you say what your lang and stack is and they tailor the documentation to just the lang and stack you're using?

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Post by gbpz »

siddharthgoel88 wrote: post #68

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.

I have a peer who says this is the greatest tool ever. I mostly just use IntelliJ for compare and merges, directories are seldom a problem.

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Post by bacon_waffle »

waiseristy wrote: post #55

Trace32 & the Lauterbach JTAG. Expensive, but intuitive, scriptable, and performant.

Do you have much experience with gdb+openocd+?

Aside from a couple chip vendor's IDEs (Analog Devices and Atmel, both at a previous employer), I've always used the open source stack for embedded debugging and found it adequate. Just wondering what I'm missing out on?

While there are certainly some rough edges in the OSS stack, they've been no worse than the commercial solutions I've tried. And at least in principle, I can fix issues in the OSS tooling.

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Post by olodus »

shaklee3 wrote: post #111
seesawtron wrote: post #19

Matlab: Great for prototyping and tinkering.

There's a reason Matlab is still around and doing well. It's so much faster to prototype things in, and systems engineers all know it well. Yes, python can do most of the same things, but it's nowhere near as easy and integrated.

I thought it was only because it had gotten into universities curriculums.

Mostly joking. I agree that Matlab is quite good to quickly setting up certain things and can even be quite elegant when used by someone who knows it.

I do however feel like it should not get as central of a place in education as it got at my university. I would prefer more open alternatives to be used to maybe inspire more simpler exploration by the students.

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Post by pinacarlos90 »

1) Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 2) SnagIt 3) SSMS 4) Microsoft Azure Services 5) Microsoft Azure DevOps 6) Postman

there a bunch of other tools I use/love but I'm not sure they would qualify as 'enterprise', but here they are just in case:

VScode, notepad++, Agent Ransack, code compare, Dark reader chrome extension, Fork (git-client tool for MacOS),linqPad

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Post by ioseph »

colmvp wrote: post #91
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.

On the flipside, I find IntelliJ causes my computer to go into overdrive while VSC is pretty snappy. A shame because I love using their software. I guess I just need to get a new computer lol

Similarly, it's a pain because I found IntelliJ was far better at auto-completing modules across a javascript mono-repo, but the performance was bad that I've switched to VSC despite it generally being worse experience
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