Thomas Hallaran

Thomas Hallaran

Capitol AI
Building AI for Creation at Capitol.ai
165 points
Sentry
The best error and performance reporting that exists for webapps. Expensive but worth it if you care about SRE

What's great

performance monitoring (7)

What needs improvement

expensive pricing (1)
LaunchDarkly
A little overbuilt but still the best way to manage feature flags and a/b test
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Mistral AI
incredible, mistral is a game changer for consumer apps leveraging AI
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FullStory
great replay functionality, retention feature needs work
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VS Code
A little bloated but copilot makes it worth it

What's great

AI autocomplete (5)

What needs improvement

high memory usage (2)
HashiCorp Terraform
Gone are the days of managing scripts to manage docker instances and configure files in /etc on remote servers. Terraform inaugurated infrastructure as code and since then it's been able to be versioned and integrated into CICD and production workflows like other software. An amazing achievement.
Cloudflare
So much more than a DNS proxy and free SSL, cloudflare is now a key part of every SREs toolbox and essential for basically any production web application. Yes, the interface suffers from bloat but it's not at AWS levels yet.
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GPT-4o
Incredible, yes this year they are going to face stiff competition but as of this posting GPT 4 turbo is still the model to beat for reasoning and one-shot performance in just about every benchmark - over a year post chatGPT launch date openAI is still the GOAT.
GitHub
Who needs anything else for Kanban? Not us! We ditched other collab software to enjoy integrated CICD, team comms, source control, and LLM powered dev productivity utopia.
Zoom
Things could always be better but zoom despite not being integrated into a bundle, crushes even 3 years post covid-19 lockdowns. New transcription and other AI features are great...
Slack
Still the best option...!