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As a hobby I thoroughly enjoy, I help my father’s company catch up with the 2020’s through creation of various online services for their products (which are in
by flyinglizard 7y ago
As a hobby I thoroughly enjoy, I help my father’s company catch up with the 2020’s through creation of various online services for their products (which are in the agricultural tech sector).
They already use Microsoft stacks internally so Azure was a natural extension.
The combination of C#, Visual Studio and Azure Functions to create serverless cloud systems (together with Azure SQL Server, Azure Redis, Azure IoT and more) is mind blowingly, unreasonably effective.
Azure Data Studio is also a pleasure to work with and such a fresh take in terms of UX.
I simply enjoy every minute of working in that environment with those tools. I don’t have experience with GCP or AWS, but I can’t see how they provide something that debuggable and intuitive without the Visual Studio core.
Another benefit - perhaps wholly psychological and imagined - is that I know Microsoft understands and lives on enterprise customers. Azure is not a side business like AWS (to e-commerce) or GCP (to advertising) is.
- sheeshkebab 7y agoIt’s really not about IDE with these cloud environments, but production workloads. The difference with aws is that it’s actually used to run Amazon’s core business and so it’s super stable for production workloads (or at least has enough of workarounds to get it to a very stable environment). Azure is more of a prototype environment, and gcp is something in between.