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

Post by aprdm » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 7:47 PM UTC

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Interesting, I have a very small team that maintains a lot of infrastructure including Prometheus. Setting up the monitoring for 5 datacenters, thousands of hosts and hundreds of services was maybe a ~2 weeks effort. We then organically add and remove things but it is maybe a ~4h/week effort. It give us a lot of value. We were using other solutions before (sensu/nagios) and it is night and day. All the plugins that w…

You're lucky to have a team. I was doing that with another person in our spare time and got 0 hour/week to spend. I only give ourselves a couple weeks to setup new software and tune everything perfectly then it has to be done for good. Will check maybe once a quarter for capacity adjustment or software upgrade. (I also supervise a logging system ingesting 1 TB/day with no supervision). I should probably say that my e…

Post by aprdm » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 8:08 PM UTC

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Number of series: 158990 is displayed in the web UI. We disabled a lot of useless metrics in the node exporter. I think pulling works OK if you have a service discovery mechanism. We hook Prometheus to Consul. We have a mix of very small VMs and very beefy bare metal.

Oh right that's not much, only 3000 metrics per host. I guess we see more scaling problems because we have more metrics and tags (physical hosts with 128 CPU, imagine the per CPU metrics just to begin with). I spent days as well testing all the collectors and tuning things carefully. That's all very interesting.

Post by jacques_chester » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 8:22 PM UTC

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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.…

Have you checked Vega? Not as easy to build charts but it’s al done via json which can in theory be changed programmatically

Post by leokennis » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

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Two: - UltraEdit. What Photoshop is to images, UltraEdit is to text. The weird thing is, it’s not a super flashy or even immediately intuitive tool. But once you get the hang of it, it never fails to deliver. - Excel. It’s insane the breadth of stuff you can do with it. And as a tool, it’s equally handy and “oh my God this will save me so much work” for a school teacher as it is for a data analyst and stock broker. I…

I got a personal license for UltraEdit years ago too after using it at work (these fancy Electron editors didn't exist back then). It definitely isn't fancy but it works well for larger files and things like column mode and perl regex searches are just so nice in certain cases. I'm finding it hard to put down especially since I do a lot of Perl and I haven't found a big benefit for an IDE there.

Post by tails4e » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 11:04 PM UTC

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Theres loads of docs and step by step tutorials [0] is just one such free set of material with all files, with step by step PDFs and presentations to explain basic digital design concepts. This is just one form this larger list of courses [1], all free. There are also loads of videos showing how the GUI works [2] [0] https://github.com/xupgit/FPGA-Design-Flow-using-Vivado/tree... [1] https://www.xilinx.com/support/un…

I was working on that around 2015 if I remember well. Some time after Xilinx was unifying their development tools into Vivado. The project attempted to use Zynq SoC, joint software and hardware development on the FPGA in HDL and on the embedded CPU in C. Not exactly trivial things to do but the scope was very small for a first go. We found zero documentation whatsoever on the internet. None of the things you linked t…