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The biggest difference is in the way we handle checks inside AWS. When you add our EC2 Instance we automatically discover your infrastructure and track changes. When you create health checks for groups and other dynamic AWS resources (ELBs, RDS, ECS, etc...) we track membership and automatically update your checks with no maintenance.
Hi, I'm Steve and I run product at Opsee. There are a few important differences:
1. The rich assertion language in Opsee means we're checking for more than availability - we're looking for correct responses too. This makes us more useful for checking APIs, since services can fail and still return a 200
2. We're measuring round-trip time for every check - Pingdom charges a lot more for this than their standard checks
3. Usability. Our integrations with Slack and Pagerduty are really simple to set up, our UI is responsive and well...better
4. We can also health check inside your AWS environment when you add our EC2 Instance, giving you more complete coverage. We actually do a lot of cool stuff inside AWS.
I've been using Sketch for over a year now, and though it's been a valuable tool (and the integration with Framer is wonderful) it continues to be plagued by bugs and crashes in even mundane daily use. They proudly announce new features while ignoring the toll these issues take on the designers who depend on their software. I'm posting this in the hope that they'll acknowledge and address some of these issues quickly.
Hear, hear. And with the introduction of Adobe XD, Sketch has a rapidly closing window to eliminate the worst bugs.
In the last release, I was plagued by one where undo didn't work. Not only did it not work, it randomly shifted layers around the artboard or introduced other glitches into my work. I can't think of many actions that are more automatic than hitting undo — when that essential safety net becomes destructive, it's devastating.
Hopefully 3.7 introduces much-needed stability. At the moment, Adobe XD is still new enough that it won't cause a mass exodus. No layers, for example. But a year from now, either Sketch will have worked incredibly hard to retain the users who stayed because there was no alternative, or XD will have matured and eaten their lunch.
I sometimes hide under my desk after hitting command+z. That pinwheel of death is just unacceptable at the rate in which I see it while performing such a critical and rudimentary action.
I still couldn't imagine going back to Photoshop, and I found XD unimpressive. As you say, about a year or so will tell.
Hi @tcfunk, feel free to give it a try here: http://adobe.ly/xd It's our first public preview (beta 1), so a lot of features are still being developed. Now that the solid foundation is there, you can expect more and more features with our monthly releases. There is a new release now in April. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. @demianborba
Eh...Not really. Have you ever opened an Adobe application up on your machine? The next time you do be sure to fire up Activity Monitor and see your CPU light up. I wouldn't touch another Adobe app with a 10ft pole so long as it requires any interaction with CC, and I know many designers in the same boat.
Sorry to hear that @ryanSrich. We built Adobe XD from the ground up, with a brand new (and fast) rendering engine. You can have hundreds of artboards with no issues whatsoever. Let us know what you think if you have a chance. Thanks, @demianborba
Latest Adobe CC apps have a plugin for browsing a media library that will (on Macs,many Way) eat up CPU like crab legs at a casino buffet. Google "CEPHtmlEngine" and the app you're using and you'll likely find the location so you can rename it, deactivating it.
Fwiw, since we're comparing Sketch with Adobe products, I frequently have very similar undo issues in Photoshop. Parts of the canvas get "stuck" and won't undo. I have not found a way to recover from this - it seems like the history gets permanently corrupted.
I know Sketch has frustrating bugs, but I honestly don't think they are any worse or more common than bugs in the Adobe products I use. And Adobe has had much more time and resources to fix these issues.
Maybe people are less forgiving of Sketch because it feels like a more lightweight, less complicated product, so you expect it to be bug free?
Hi @greenspot, oh yeah! We have a team dedicated to a Windows version to land later in the year. Performance is treated as a main feature of Adobe XD, that's why we picked the multi-platform approach, instead of cross-platform. Both Mac and Windows versions are first class citizens, taking the best of each OS. @demianborba
Ok, after a really long download and another sign-in into Adobe Cloud a very light app opens with perhaps a fraction of Sketch's features. But maybe I am just used to sketch.
Don't think they have any chance against Sketch on OSX, maybe on Windows.
It's a first beta (in the original sense, not the Google one), and it shows. It seen to be a "simple" layout app too, not a total package like Sketch can be. I think we will see a thorough integration with the other app of the Creative Cloud.
From what I understand Adobe XD is meant to work in tandem with Photoshop and Illustrator. If you don't use those two program, XD on its own is almost entirely useless (as it stand). I believe they're working to add more features directly into XD. But when I went to check it out a few weeks ago you couldn't even choose a color by hex value. Then I closed it and never opened it again since.
Actually, you can choose a color by hex value... it's just hidden because it's the Mac native color picker. (We're in the process of writing our own now, so it won't be this obnoxious in the future.) Second tab, select RGB in the drop-down.
Definitely give XD a whirl in the upcoming months, though, and please please do log what you need in adobexd.uservoice.com. We can't read minds, and we really do want to listen to what the you all need and provide an app that will meet them.
I will definitely do so and will check it out in the near future. However at the time I couldn't experiment with it in my normal workflow as I don't use Illustrator or Photoshop, so the then-missing features were a non-starter for me.
Sorry to hear that is your impression @nkrisc. You probably tested our Beta 1 (Public Preview) released in March, that is our first beta, so there is a lot to be done. We have a new preview (Public Preview 2) going out in April with a lot more features. And yes, you can expect a tight integration with Photoshop or Illustrator, it's just a matter of copying and pasting items from them to XD. You can even bring content from Sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyoFGyENt3g Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, and please expect a lot more features landing in our monthly releases. This is just the beginning :)
I've been using Sketch for a year and a half and I don't encounter too many bugs or crashes that would affect my workflow. It was buggier maybe a year ago but now I find it ok. Fireworks was a lot worse. I had to run a separate utility app that would autosave the Fireworks document every 5 minutes.
I used the latest version of Illustrator recently to create a HTML theme from a design and I'm amazed at how little has changed - no exporting 1x/2x images without a script, no exporting of layers, editing a slice requires going to Object > Slice > Options in the drop down menus.
Adobe XD looks like a rip-off of Sketch. We should support the small guy because we might be that small guy one day.
> "it continues to be plagued by bugs and crashes in even mundane daily use"
Me and 5 of my friends who are also web/mobile designers moved to Sketch two years ago, during this two years I maybe had 2 or 3 crashes, and none of them affected my workflow because of the autosave feature of Sketch.
The videos he shows are examples of sketch's many micro usability problems (not so much crashes as frustrating glitches). I love Sketch, but it does have a lot of little issues.
I've been using Sketch on and off for about that long as well, and have probably only had that many crashes too. Non-crashing bugs, however, still abound: Even after installing the update just this evening, I ran into a new undo bug where an undo would jump back about ten or so actions, while redo would step through them one by one. And this is to say nothing of the perennial issues with object alignment, the inexplicable inability to move an object along an axis with the shift key, something I slogged through again this evening.
That said, most of these things can be worked around, and the benefits of Sketch are enough that a lot of designers can overlook them. Personally, though, I'm probably going to switch full-time to Affinity Designer once symbol support is released.
Agree, if it's not the pinwheel as mentioned, it's a roulette wheel that randomly chooses some point in your history to revert to. It absolutely boggles the mind that they don't acknowledge this. I specifically read these comments hoping someone else would confirm the undo issues to get their attention.
I actually own Designer (and Photo) but purchased Sketch to better integrate with some of our UX team workflows. Designer is stunning, rock solid, and I've never had a single crash or undo issue (or font rendering/scaling, or grouping, or or). Sadly no one I know uses it; it's all Sketch these days except for the Illustrator holdouts. I've asked a few of the prototyping tool folks like Framer to import the Designer file format like they do Sketch. I believe it's documented and would help encourage adoption...no news yet.
Sketch 3.7 update actually broke file loading, after update I couldn't open my previously working sketch file. To their credit though they've replied and issued an update in 30 minutes after I've sent them support request.
Most of those tweets are from a few months ago. I've had similar things happen to me as well. In the last couple of months, I haven't come across any bugs, so I'm pretty sure they are putting more effort into making Sketch more stable.
As a rule of thumb, wait 2 or 3 weeks before upgrading to any major update(I know lots of Sketch users do the same). Usually, in 3.x.1 updates they seem to weed out a lot of bugs.
I've been slowly moving all my work over to Sketch in the last year, and now about 90% of it is all done in Sketch!
At Datadog, we’re on a mission to build the best monitoring platform in the world. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—and high availability, providing always-on alerting, visualization, and tracing for our customers' infrastructure and applications around the globe.
We're looking for front-end and back-end engineers, product designers, and data scientists to join the team