Fastmail and Trello.
Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?
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#142Weird but i like Outlook Web, very good replacement for GMail with it's endless "ui improvements".
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#143- TortoiseSVN/TortoiseGit make everything a snap when it comes to repository work. I can’t recommend these enough. - Agent Ransack is a GUI for findstr. Much nicer to use than the one in Notepad++. - VS 2019 is incredible. I weep for the parallel universe where we’re all stuck using Eclipse for everything.
IntelliJ tools are quite good. Most IntelliJ tools are better than most Eclipse equivalents.
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#144Phabricator
Enterprise indeed, I had to use it when working with a client, it’s was ... different. No intergration with something like Jira, no support for pull-requests/merge-request, navigation is pretty terrible.
What? Tasks (unit of work) and Diffs (unit of code review) are its two central entities. Which parts of it were you using, if not those?
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#145Clubhouse for managing the software development. It’s really snappy which I love. Sentry.io for handling all exceptions from applications and mobile devices in one place.
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#146Things 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…
I definitely am on the opposite side when it comes to Tableau. After you get over the initial learning curve you start to realize that everything in Tableau when working with calculated fields is a workaround. If your data doesn't already look amazing going into Tableau you're in for a bad time.
Was a big fan of tableau and we use it in production. It's a wonderfully exploratory tool. But the real pain start when you have 50+ workbooks and the underlying data model MUST introduce breaking change for whatever reason.
There is to my knowledge no way to automate edition of workbooks. You are in for GUI repetitive soul sucking task. Bonus pain if "workaround" are involved. (Just have a look at the support forum... well not the good time they just revamped it... many answer involve 10+ manuals GUI steps)
I still use it, overall still pretty good at what it does best. But I'm actively seeking alternative.
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#147* Looker (most usable BI tool I’ve come across so far) * DataDog (distributed tracing is a dream) * IntelliJ (idea, goland, pycharm, clion, datagrip) * MindNode (macOS-only mind-mapping software) Recently started using smart sheets, but on the fence about this one so far.
MindNode is available on iOS and iPadOS devices too. Great app!
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I converted to Apple Numbers about a year after it came out, and both Excel and Google Sheets seem completely archaic to me now. I've sent PDFs of my Numbers docs to people and they are blown away. Now that I can share Numbers through iCloud to both Mac and Windows users, I've got some people fully converted over.
Agreed. I have a massive financial projection that I built in Numbers over the last ten years or so. Performance was an issue with early versions, but the UI! So good.
I still use Excel to interop with others and every time I do I find myself tearing my hair out at how painful it is to use.
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#149Datadog - the amount of observability we have in our infrastructure is insane. I can find out what’s wrong within a few seconds.
The tool indeed does a very good job from developer's point of view but when we see the end to end aspects of Datadog then the feeling changes. Previously when I was working as a DevOps Engineer, I remember how much our Head of Infrastructure was pissed with the shady licensing and pricing model of Datadog. Missing of detailed itemized billing, lack of proper access control (allowing who team can use which feature, c…
Yeah, amazing, incredible tool but the billing is obfuscated to the point you almost wonder if they're intentionally trying to make it impossible to understand. Though once you realize there are a tons of hacks to abuse their billing methods and pay much less, it becomes apparent that it's just a case of Hanlon's razor.
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#150Not Jira. Hahahahaha.
Is anyone just using Git{Hub,Lab,Tea} issues and being fine with it? Is the absence of a Kanban board a deal breaker? Perhaps for management.
Lab enterprise, yeah. They are utterly useful in our case since we are working on a branch per issue model, which makes it extremely easy for tracking and code reviews.