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pentab··on Show HN: NetFabric – next-gen network monitoring solution
Thanks for your recommendation and sorry for not fully understanding the rules. I tried to fix this but did not see how to edit my submission.
pentab··on Show HN: NetFabric – next-gen network monitoring solution
Hi Pavel. Thanks for your comment and for sharing your perspective! We indeed believe both IP Fabric and ForwardNetworks follow promising approaches. A key difference is that we are focusing on a broader range of data sources (including NetFlow, SNMP, BGP, etc) and therefore can also support a live view of a given network.

Regarding the variety, we agree that network data sources suffer from a lot of subtle variety, which can be really frustrating especially because this variety makes it hard to access very valuable information. This is our main motivation to integrate LLMs, as a powerful tool that can naturally handle subtle variety.

Regarding the name, it was not our intention to copy or imitate. We chose "NetFabric" because we felt it accurately represented our vision of creating a seamless, integrated network monitoring solution that weaves together diverse network data sources.

pentab··on Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?
Are you not worried about compromising all your passwords when one of them is compromised? I assume attackers know they can replace the service name in a leaked password?
pentab··on Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords in 2023?
How do you avoid merge conflicts? Do you only ever edit your KeePassXC files on one machine?
pentab··on Ask HN: Why are we not using debuggers more?
There is undo, I would be very interested in your thoughts on it: https://undo.io/

This may also contain further pointers that I missed: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1815...

pentab··on Ask HN: Why are we not using debuggers more?
Can you SSH into the remote machine? Visual Studio Code offers quite solid remote development tools through ssh (maybe other means too): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

I would guess that it also supports debugging.

pentab··on Ask HN: Why are we not using debuggers more?
Yes, it is sad that setting up debugging is so tedious.

Could you give some examples or languages/environments with "bad" debuggers?

pentab··on Ask HN: Why are we not using debuggers more?
There is actually a surprising amount of reverse debugging products out there, some are listed here: http://jakob.engbloms.se/archives/1564

Would you be willing to use one of those?

pentab··on Ask HN: Why are we not using debuggers more?
What kind of information would help you to debug? And what kind of information is "too much"?

Personally, I think "too much" is when you get a large table of all variables and their values; it is quite hard to locate the one you care about...

pentab··on Ask HN: Why are we not using debuggers more?
I don't think I understand. Are you saying that debuggers have no use on your own code, and people avoid looking at other people's code? Also, are you saying that there exists no debugger for <insert language here>?