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The author talks about leverage an OS provides to the vendor: iOS for Apple (and its App Store) and Windows for Microsoft. It is only logical that when your lev

The author talks about leverage an OS provides to the vendor: iOS for Apple (and its App Store) and Windows for Microsoft. It is only logical that when your leverage fades, you should find an alternative means for growth. Microsoft has been betting on the cloud for some time now. Part of that strategy is shifting enterprise from premise to Azure. In parallel investing in developers. VS Code, .NET Core and now GitHub are good examples of those investments. What I haven't seen are non-enterprise developers, even hobbyists, using Azure as their cloud. When I talk to fellow devs, they have experience with AWS not Azure. My impression is that the Linux/CLI environment is much more familiar that Azure cloud portal with buttons à la Windows. Less black box. Curious to know if my impression is right.

cavisne 8y ago
The hobbyiest/ side project angle of this is the most interesting to me. Most side projects end up in github at some point (especially if Microsoft makes private repos free - very likely). Azure’s PaaS offering is actually pretty good so having a simple deploy to azure button when creating the project could be a huge boost.
- acdha 8y ago
  That’s my expectation, too: they don’t change anything except that there’ll be a super easy path to deploy on Azure and probably some nice CI tools, etc. with great VSCode integration. (“You have a Dockerfile. Click here to deploy on Azure free tier.”) Simply making sure they’re considered along with AWS would be big, especially since experience on small or side projects factors into many business decisions.
- scarface74 8y ago
  Microsoft already has free private git repos, project management, hosted build servers for Windows, Linux,Macs, etc. It's been available with VSTS for years.
zaat 8y ago
Azure have support for every shell you want, the problem isn't there. My guesses are the late entry to the market, the widespread hatred to Microsoft (it's softening, but it's still there) and the half baked state of many of the services in the platform.
calferreira 8y ago
I host all my side projects on VSTS. Free source control TFS & GIT. Free builds. Free project management. Heck, i have a complete pipeline to build my code and deploy it to the app store. Costs me zero per month. Please keep in mind that is "free" (has limits), but for my usage is more than enough. I can't do the same on AWS AFAIK or even github.
- oblio 8y ago
  AWS has a free tier but it's quite byzantine in its rules.

cavisne 8y ago

The hobbyiest/ side project angle of this is the most interesting to me. Most side projects end up in github at some point (especially if Microsoft makes private repos free - very likely). Azure’s PaaS offering is actually pretty good so having a simple deploy to azure button when creating the project could be a huge boost.

acdha 8y ago
That’s my expectation, too: they don’t change anything except that there’ll be a super easy path to deploy on Azure and probably some nice CI tools, etc. with great VSCode integration. (“You have a Dockerfile. Click here to deploy on Azure free tier.”) Simply making sure they’re considered along with AWS would be big, especially since experience on small or side projects factors into many business decisions.
scarface74 8y ago
Microsoft already has free private git repos, project management, hosted build servers for Windows, Linux,Macs, etc. It's been available with VSTS for years.

zaat 8y ago

Azure have support for every shell you want, the problem isn't there. My guesses are the late entry to the market, the widespread hatred to Microsoft (it's softening, but it's still there) and the half baked state of many of the services in the platform.

calferreira 8y ago

I host all my side projects on VSTS. Free source control TFS & GIT. Free builds. Free project management. Heck, i have a complete pipeline to build my code and deploy it to the app store. Costs me zero per month. Please keep in mind that is "free" (has limits), but for my usage is more than enough. I can't do the same on AWS AFAIK or even github.

oblio 8y ago
AWS has a free tier but it's quite byzantine in its rules.