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2016-s default gentlemen's choice: Azure, Win10, Docker, CoreCLR, ASP.NET Web API, F#, TypeScript.

• MichaelGG 12y ago
  Azure is a nice offering, pretty slick. But the costs of compute on Azure are literally 200% of Google Cloud Compute Engine. And the performance of GCE is also better. I'm very anti Google, and I had dismissed GCE out of hand. But then I looked into it and tried it out and I'm blown away. VMs launch like instantly, and are much faster than their Azure counterparts. Niceties, like SSH in the browser really are cute, too. And, each machine can have a public IP, instead of Azure's quirky "cloud service" one IP limitation. But pricing, that's what kills you. While Azure makes a big deal about how they match pricing, it's only on the storage/transfer sides. The same specs on Azure are 200% more money. The same performance is... a lot more money. I think it's cause the main tier of Azure runs on some older AMD series, but GCE is running Ivy/Sandy bridge. As a longtime Azure user, I was rather distressed to find I was paying so much more for less. Even after the discounts MS had for 6 or 12 month commits, their pricing is still far more. Also s/TypeScript/WebSharper.