| Of all the paas providers Azure have the worst abstractions and services. In general I think it’s sad that most buy in to consuming these ”weird” services and that there’s jobs to be had as cloud architects and specialists.
It feeds bad design and loose threads as partners have to be kept relevant. This is my take on the whole enterprise IT field though! At my little shop of 30 so developers, we inherited an Azure mess, built abstractions for the services we need in a more ”industry standard” way in our dev tooling, and moved to Hetzner after a couple of years. A developer here knows no different, basically - our tooling deals with our workflows and service abstractions, and these shouldn’t change just because new provider. 1/10-th of the monthly bill, and money partly spent on building the best DX one can imagine. Great trade-off, IMO! Only two cases come to mind for using big cloud: - really small scale: mvp style - massive global distribution with elasticity requirements. Two outliers looking at the vast majority of companies out there. |