> "Develop tools that help small businesses operate at the same level as large corporations"
This goal sounds soooo wrong in sooo many ways. How 'large corporations' operate is not a good thing to emulate.
I have worked in this space for +25 years and even touched some government, and the single best thing I see is to remove something made for `large corporations` and replace it with something way simpler.
I even live from it, my main app (https://www.bestsellerapp.net) is basically a re-made front-end for take orders and invoices for several ERPs. People pay me for DON'T use the entry forms of those ERPs, go figure!.
In fact, if you wanna destroy super-fast a small business make it adopt some big 'large corporations' tech or process and see how things collapse, be this an ERP (the biggest culprit), micro-services, kubernetes or whatever.
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But let's be charitable and assume here 'same level as large corporations' is more like a ideal thing than a actual thing.
I have said before than a small company needs all, so everything you see as a tool for a big company, a small one needs it, but simpler and better integrated.
They, certainly not need multi-cluster,multi-node things. Single-server + backups and that is all.
Good examples of this stuff:
* Access, if it were good
* Visual FoxPro, but modern
* Integrated log, metrics, alert
* Metabase or similar for dashboarding
* An orchestration tool for ETL, but tailored for this space
Probably something actually good from big companies that is missing here is a good way to deploy, rebuild, install the OS + APP in a consistent way, like NixOS.
This goal sounds soooo wrong in sooo many ways. How 'large corporations' operate is not a good thing to emulate.
I have worked in this space for +25 years and even touched some government, and the single best thing I see is to remove something made for `large corporations` and replace it with something way simpler.
I even live from it, my main app (https://www.bestsellerapp.net) is basically a re-made front-end for take orders and invoices for several ERPs. People pay me for DON'T use the entry forms of those ERPs, go figure!.
In fact, if you wanna destroy super-fast a small business make it adopt some big 'large corporations' tech or process and see how things collapse, be this an ERP (the biggest culprit), micro-services, kubernetes or whatever.
---
But let's be charitable and assume here 'same level as large corporations' is more like a ideal thing than a actual thing.
I have said before than a small company needs all, so everything you see as a tool for a big company, a small one needs it, but simpler and better integrated.
They, certainly not need multi-cluster,multi-node things. Single-server + backups and that is all.
Good examples of this stuff:
* Access, if it were good
* Visual FoxPro, but modern
* Integrated log, metrics, alert
* Metabase or similar for dashboarding
* An orchestration tool for ETL, but tailored for this space
Probably something actually good from big companies that is missing here is a good way to deploy, rebuild, install the OS + APP in a consistent way, like NixOS.