[raxxorrax]

Interesting post. I feel for him using this tool. Had my own experience with team foundation server on premise. Although a different tool, many of the problems seem quite similar.

A little rant:

To the cloud infrastructure of MS: I don't know if anyone uses it for anything serious and doesn't complain about severe performance issues not only related to builds, but everything. From administrative sites to hosted environments. I read a lot of excuses mainly saying I should adjust my expectations regarding speed for cloud solutions... Problem is that there are other providers that don't have these issues.

Seriously, you need only to use office 365 if you want to get an impression of bad performance. Because everything is slow.

This is from a location in Europe, but I really doubt there are significantly more performant locations.

[stevenacreman]

This is true of all of the services I've tried across Azure, AWS and Google cloud.

Microsoft are always last place in terms of performance and reliability.

For Kubernetes I actually keep track of exactly how bad they are with an automated testing tool.

Results of the last test are here: https://kubedex.com/is-azure-kubernetes-aks-any-less-terribl...

I've complained about UX before in the context of the Azure portal being, in my opinion, terrible. But that's subjective and I respect that others may like it, although not sure how they do.

[dtrailin]

You should do an updated test comparing AWS as well. I feel like there should be more continuous benchmarking efforts of cloud vendors. This is the last one I remember in this genre (https://www.azurefromthetrenches.com/azure-functions-signifi...). I wonder if someone could make a business doing that.

Also, I've found in terms of UX GCP > Azure > AWS personally.

[raxxorrax]

This is very interesting data, thank you for that. Maybe MS has improved a bit although I haven't felt any improvements yet. But the changes might not be rolled out completely. Performance wise it can only get better in my opinion.

[robbyt]

I felt the same way when I worked on a large Azure project years ago. It seemed that nobody uses it for anything serious, reliability was awful (their API would return 500s in the middle of the day, no notice of downtime, VMs would lose network connectivity, disks would take 30+ minutes to attach, and much more).

The client I was working with is very big and notable, so they had lots of help from Microsoft, and even so, there were so many problems with the service. I'd hate to see how smaller customers are treated.