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The amazing thing about Microsoft is that once developers drink the kool-aid they will bend over backwards to evangelize whatever MS serves them. This is an example of that. Azure could not pay for better marketing.

Not sure I read this one correctly but I think he said he was opposed to VMs in the cloud. Lol.

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Azure is a good product, though. And, more importantly, the person is familiar with it.

If I was doing something similar, I'd probably use GCP. Not necessarily because it's superior (i like it a lot, btw), but because I can achieve my goals faster that way.

Because contrary to what UNIX devs think about development environments like Windows, we do like to be pampered instead of developing software like 40 years ago.

This also applies to Apple and Google's stacks.

but I think he said he was opposed to VMs in the cloud. Lol.

I am opposed to VMs in the cloud because if all you need is VMs there are much cheaper alternatives. Every seasoned cloud guy knows this! Generally in a “big 3” cloud I would use a VM only if a managed service didn’t cater to my use cases, and there are alot of managed services now...

(I make an exception for workloads that can tolerate preemptible VMs obv, that can be very cost effective )

There is something liberating about letting MS make most of the choices for you- never worrying about a new language or what is the best logging library, or how best to chain three logging libraries together or what not. You just deal with what MS has chosen, no matter how suboptimal, and start coding.

Of course MS has created its own dead ends, and has situations where the best solution is just a warmed-over c# version of what Java does. But, especially if the code is just a means to an end, sometimes it's just best to go hard with the tools you know.

It feels warm at first, then you feel colder...

We have to convert about a bazillion XAML build descriptions to the new format. Thanks MS. At least the 40 years old Unix stuff just keeps working if you don't have any particular reason to upgrade.

Off topic, but wasn't there a famous comment around the warm at first and then starts feeling cold..around peeing? Do you happen to know the exact comment?

I've heard many variations on the same theme, it's what I alluded to. Feels good at first but it's not a long term solution. :)

It's not kool-aid, it's Microsoft's tradition of giving unusual names to existing things. I can easily imagine the same article about CircleCI or Travis, but it would be named "CI for Commodore 64" and therefore it would be less (accidentally) clickbaity.

Did you try the service before ranting? It have been available for years for free and keeps getting new features. I don't like the new UI, but as a private git repository it is solid. We also get recently a huge extension of free build time.

Which other services there are that provide that level of quality and ease of use for free without forcing you to open your source code?

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