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I agree and didn't mean this as a criticism of HN (there is indeed a lot of variety here compared to other online communities). My question was more along the l

by sysk 12y ago

I agree and didn't mean this as a criticism of HN (there is indeed a lot of variety here compared to other online communities). My question was more along the lines of: "Is there anything of value to be learned from the enterprise software world?"

mindcrime 12y ago
My question was more along the lines of: "Is there anything of value to be learned from the enterprise software world?" It kinda depends on what your interests are, and where exactly you draw certain lines, but I'd give that a qualified "yes". Actually, to me, I consider enterprise development to be far more interesting that, say, working on consumer facing webapps or something. And I am biased, as my own startup is a vendor of "enterprise" software. But, yeah, the enterprise world has some really big, hard and fun challenges to deal with... and I guess I take a somewhat expansive, "big-tent" view of what falls into the enterprise space. From where I'm sitting, using Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Storm, Giraph, Hama, etc. for complicated backend analytics and real-time business intelligence is amazingly interesting stuff. And distributed systems of all kinds fall into what I'd consider enterprise. The recent talk about a "data center operating system"? That showed up here at HN, but I still consider it an enterprise topic (but not necessarily exclusively so). Anyway, things like MDM (Master Data Management), BPM (Business Process Management), BRMS (Business Rule Management Systems), Decision Support Systems, BI, Predictive Analytics, Real-time Marketing, SOA, etc., have lots of fun and interesting aspects. FWIW, another good site for keeping up on the enterprise side of things is: http://www.theserverside.com http://www.theserverside.com
- sysk 12y ago
  Thanks! Any other resources you can recommend? I'd be especially interested in related books/online courses if you know any.

by sysk 12y ago

mindcrime 12y ago

My question was more along the lines of: "Is there anything of value to be learned from the enterprise software world?" It kinda depends on what your interests are, and where exactly you draw certain lines, but I'd give that a qualified "yes". Actually, to me, I consider enterprise development to be far more interesting that, say, working on consumer facing webapps or something. And I am biased, as my own startup is a vendor of "enterprise" software. But, yeah, the enterprise world has some really big, hard and fun challenges to deal with... and I guess I take a somewhat expansive, "big-tent" view of what falls into the enterprise space. From where I'm sitting, using Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Storm, Giraph, Hama, etc. for complicated backend analytics and real-time business intelligence is amazingly interesting stuff. And distributed systems of all kinds fall into what I'd consider enterprise. The recent talk about a "data center operating system"? That showed up here at HN, but I still consider it an enterprise topic (but not necessarily exclusively so). Anyway, things like MDM (Master Data Management), BPM (Business Process Management), BRMS (Business Rule Management Systems), Decision Support Systems, BI, Predictive Analytics, Real-time Marketing, SOA, etc., have lots of fun and interesting aspects. FWIW, another good site for keeping up on the enterprise side of things is: http://www.theserverside.com http://www.theserverside.com

sysk 12y ago
Thanks! Any other resources you can recommend? I'd be especially interested in related books/online courses if you know any.