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I agree, though I wouldn't say my experience with Azure has been "profoundly awful". Not all that great is more like it. I'm commenting because you mentioned th

I agree, though I wouldn't say my experience with Azure has been "profoundly awful". Not all that great is more like it. I'm commenting because you mentioned the horizontal blade scrolling thing. For me, that has to be some of the worst UI/UX. Drives me absolutely nuts. GCP is quickly becoming my favorite. The UI/UX of the web console is light years ahead of either AWS or Azure. The GCP documentation is a breath of fresh air. I'm stuck with AWS as my primary provider for now, but for new projects the bias is GCP. Most of the services I have used on GCP are well documented and easy to get around. Compare this to the AWS experience where documentation is often non-existent or out of date or the product itself just feels incomplete and broken.

alasdair_ 7y ago
>The GCP documentation is a breath of fresh air. I've found that some areas of the GCP docs are fantastic and some are appallingly bad. Two examples I dealt with last week that I particularly hated were trying to find a good resource on unit testing parts of a Cloud Dataflow and how examply to access the private key for a service account on Appengine Standard. (The switch from Java 7 to 8 really fucked this up). There seem to be two versions of a LOT of Google's APIs and it's often not clear which one is the correct one to use. Another annoying issue is that I'll be looking at the Java documentation on something and will suddenly be told to run some Python commands (which mean installing python and PIP and a bunch of other stuff) just to get some Java thing working. But, all this aside, I agree it's miles better than the last time I looked at Azure.