Re:Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
by GordonS on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:34AM
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> from the inconsistent and weird horizontally-expanding OG-Xbox blades user interface
I'm going to have to pull you up on consistency here - I find the blade UI very consistent (with a few exceptions, such as Function Apps). I always know where the toolbar will be, where header info will be, where the details will be etc.
The same cannot be said for AWS, where I sometimes wonder if the UI for each service has been created by separate teams in complete isolation.
Aside from consistency, I really like Azure's blade UI, but I recognise that it seems to be quite polarising. Also, if it was a few years ago you used it, you'd have a different experience now (I recall when the blade UI was first introduced, it had a lot of performance issues and weird UI glitches; it's performant and stable now).
> thrown-over-the-wall API libraries
I somewhat agree here, and I've fallen victim to this myself on occasion.
> Powershell Core is not, however, a good experience on a Linux machine
As much as I like the Windows and Azure ecosystems, I'm not a fan of Powershell's verbose syntax at all. I much prefer bash for scripting tasks, which works in the "Git Bash" tool you get with Git for Windows, as well as WSL. WSL is pretty amazing actually, but WSL2 can't come quick enough!
> the comprehensively bad clusterfuck that is Azure
I've been using numerous Azure services pretty solidly for ~3-4 years now, and I haven't encountered issues like those you mentioned. Their support is excellent too, although I've only used it a few times.
I work with AWS and GCP from time to time too (depends on what clients want), but Azure would be my first choice every time.
I'm going to have to pull you up on consistency here - I find the blade UI very consistent (with a few exceptions, such as Function Apps). I always know where the toolbar will be, where header info will be, where the details will be etc.
The same cannot be said for AWS, where I sometimes wonder if the UI for each service has been created by separate teams in complete isolation.
Aside from consistency, I really like Azure's blade UI, but I recognise that it seems to be quite polarising. Also, if it was a few years ago you used it, you'd have a different experience now (I recall when the blade UI was first introduced, it had a lot of performance issues and weird UI glitches; it's performant and stable now).
> thrown-over-the-wall API libraries
I somewhat agree here, and I've fallen victim to this myself on occasion.
> Powershell Core is not, however, a good experience on a Linux machine
As much as I like the Windows and Azure ecosystems, I'm not a fan of Powershell's verbose syntax at all. I much prefer bash for scripting tasks, which works in the "Git Bash" tool you get with Git for Windows, as well as WSL. WSL is pretty amazing actually, but WSL2 can't come quick enough!
> the comprehensively bad clusterfuck that is Azure
I've been using numerous Azure services pretty solidly for ~3-4 years now, and I haven't encountered issues like those you mentioned. Their support is excellent too, although I've only used it a few times.
I work with AWS and GCP from time to time too (depends on what clients want), but Azure would be my first choice every time.