Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud Platform

Re:Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud ... by slap_shot on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:30PM (#12508062)

I just finished a project on Azure and am now doing a project on Google Cloud. I've been blown away by the documentation and user experience. It's by far my favorite between AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Glad to see Windows VMs are now supported. Any intention to add C# drivers for the services, namely Pub/Sub?

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Re:Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud ... by jahewson on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:38PM (#12508134)

> Glad to see Windows VMs are now supported. Any intention to add C# drivers for the services, namely Pub/Sub?

You might want to read the article. About 1/3 of it is devoted to announcing their new .net client libraries.

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Re:Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud ... by jc4p on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:46PM (#12508194)

I don't know if I should post this comment or not, but for the record this is one of the HN guidelines I try to abide by the most:

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud ... by teh_klev on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:37PM (#12510024)

I do too....but.....

"You might want to read the article" !== "Did you even read the article" in terms of intentional snark for which that guideline is intended.

Parent also points out that a decent chunk of the article is about the support libs,

To quote fairly early on in the article just from a quick scan (Ctrl+F "pub"):

"These libraries are in beta today, and include wrappers for Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Datastore, with more on the way"

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Re:Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud ... by 0xFFC on Thursday September 15, 2016 @03:19PM (#12508983)

Sorry, I couldn't quite understand which one was your favorite, GCP or Azure?

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Re:Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud ... by slap_shot on Thursday September 15, 2016 @03:47PM (#12509221)

Whoops. Sorry. GCP has been my favorite.

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Re:Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud ... by MichaelGG on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:36PM (#12510440)

GCP is head-and-shoulders better, at least in my not-super-involved experience (that is, I haven't automated everything). Azure has been buggy as all hell. Terrible confusing slow portal. Slow boots. Machines that hang, requiring the "Redmond shuffle" (resize a Windows VM twice to get RDP working again). Insane SSD situation.

AWS is solid but feels cluttered, I guess. GCP is just ... a breath of fresh air. And it's way cheaper than Azure (last I checked, some VMs were 1/5th the cost; our overall cost is 1/2 on GCP.)

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Re:Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud ... by wstrange on Thursday September 15, 2016 @09:40PM (#12511347)

When I did a price comparison (4 months) ago, GCP was the least expensive by a long shot.

Azure was shockingly expensive -but then again, I suspect they offer their enterprise customers discounts that may not be published.

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Re:Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud ... by MichaelGG on Friday September 16, 2016 @12:12AM (#12511767)

The enterprise agreements don't help that much. Azure is banking on the fact that traditional Windows shops will pay tons to run MS's cloud. Hadoop... On Microsoft, and so on. Plus they have unique AD positioning.

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