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by margor 456 days ago
As I worked adjacent to people who ran thousands of jobs in ActiveBatch - that software indeed was very simple to use and its GUI might have been awesome - but it's been double edged sword where if you have hundreds of people working on it - it becomes maintenance nightmare and promoting changes between environments was non-existent, causing multiple incidents.

Mind you, it might have been just culture at that place, but I don't think this is as good of an example as you make it be. Sure, it was easy to get started and made the life easier at the beginning, but running it at scale was not in any way easy.
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saturn8601 453 days ago
How long back are you talking about? Do you remember what version? When I was working there, there were improvements made to "Change Management" ie. promoting changes from Test -> Production. After I left I heard the improvements continued. When I was there, it was a ~50 person company that was very focused so this was a pain point they were well aware of.
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pramodbiligiri 456 days ago
The parent comment made me curious enough to go look it up. Is it this same ActiveBatch that you both are referring to? https://www.advsyscon.com/
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saturn8601 453 days ago
Yes its best to google for some real pics of the GUI. They just have "drawings" on their site.

When I was there it was not owned by Redwood, after 30+ years in business the original owners sold the company to them a few years back to retire.

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margor 454 days ago
ActiceBatch by Redwood, correct. Its widely used by some hedge funds.
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