Ask HN: SE and Team Leads, Frustrations of juggling multiple tools? Hey y'all, I'm curious about the tools and software you use on a daily basis to manage your projects and teams. Have you ever found yourself switching between multiple tools, and do you sometimes wish you had everything consolidated in one application? Share your experiences and insights on what functionalities or features you feel are missing in your current workflow. |
I just did a maven build a moment ago that added up to 13 seconds but I have at times had build processes that took upwards of 40 minutes. Sometimes for bad reasons, but sometimes this is intrinsic to the kind of work I am doing.
For instance I have a machine learning model that I train automatically every day, it takes 3 minutes and in that 3 minutes it is training multiple models, testing them, choosing one, and calibrating the model. There are four steps of retrieving items from an RSS feed and incorporating them in a database, training a classification model, running another classification, and gathering more data from the Hacker news API. I could probably squash them down a single Python script but running them all every day doesn't feel like a burden.
I have another model that takes around 45 minutes to train a single model. I might have to train 10 of those to get one which is production quality. Possibly I could fully automate the process and parallelize it, just kick it off and have a model in 2.5 hours. I am not there yet, but trying to get there I will have to start the trainer, go do something else that doesn't interfere with the trainer, get a notification that the trainer completed and it needs my attention, etc.
That is, I'd like tools to help manage long-running processes like that.