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> But an engineer can't help but also factor in "i'm the one that has to build this, so how much extra work am i giving myself?

I wonder how many startups have failed because the tech has been too much of a pain in the ass to maintain and the technical staff burns out and leaves, with more and more expensive developers postponing leaving till as late as possible and doing as little as possible

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Start ups that choose things like Azure are a red flag for me. Churn is really problematic. Learning a code base by having to poke and grok takes a lot longer than being able to fire off a few questions.

Not sure why Azure matters in terms of infra (it's... fine) but if it means dealing with MS Teams that's a big negative.

I don't understand why Europe loves MS so much. Teams as far as the eye can see....

yeah azure has come a long way since 2016. id say it has devex ~amazon, better than gcp. but to his point the startup picking azure is a bit of a red flag, though it's not the best example of a red flag, imo.

What does Azure have to do with understanding a codebase? Azure is just a way to host an app.

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