Lot of Microsoft astroturfing going on here at HN nowadays. Every day there are 2-3 positive stories about Microsoft. Or maybe they have just become a great corporate citizen suddenly? It's less likely though.
Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
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Re: Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
#12Lot of Microsoft astroturfing going on here at HN nowadays. Every day there are 2-3 positive stories about Microsoft. Or maybe they have just become a great corporate citizen suddenly? It's less likely though.
> You can't make insinuations of astroturfing or shillage on HN without evidence.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20astroturf&sort=byDat...
Re: Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
#13Lot of Microsoft astroturfing going on here at HN nowadays. Every day there are 2-3 positive stories about Microsoft. Or maybe they have just become a great corporate citizen suddenly? It's less likely though.
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Re: Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
#14Lot of Microsoft astroturfing going on here at HN nowadays. Every day there are 2-3 positive stories about Microsoft. Or maybe they have just become a great corporate citizen suddenly? It's less likely though.
In enterprise there is two real options for cloud, azure and aws. Both are great, but a lot of us chose azure because we were already Microsoft shops.
Their support is excellent, you pay for it so that’s kind of natural, but if I submit an issue with a high importance rating they’ll be on the phone with me on the hour until it’s solved with no extra cost to me.
From a European perspective Microsoft were the first to adopt EU legislation. They were also the first to offer “private” azure hosting, where your data isn’t held on servers shared with anyone as well as letting you physically inspect your servers at the azure data farm. (Amazon does all this as well now, but they didn’t when we were chosing cloud.)
I’m extremely satisfied with how they operate for enterprise, how they adopt other technologies as first class citizens in their offered stack (we use a lot of python), and how accessible they are. It’s not just for support, if I want something added or changed I can ask them, and often it happens.
I really, really hate windows 10 though, so there is that. :p
Re: Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
#15Lot of Microsoft astroturfing going on here at HN nowadays. Every day there are 2-3 positive stories about Microsoft. Or maybe they have just become a great corporate citizen suddenly? It's less likely though.
Microsoft is a company whose three traditional strengths were Windows, Office, and Server. The first is toast and Microsoft lost in mobile, and the second is getting crushed by Google Apps. Power makes companies bad -- Microsoft was bad when they have power, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are bad now that they have power. Microsoft is weaker than they have ever been and thus they are behaving better than they ever have.
Re: Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
#16Sooooo... what exactly is it? All I'm seeing is an endless barrage of buzzwords.
microsoft trying to get young people working for them.
It just seems to be a containerization/messaging platform. Like all things in the MS world, it doesn't exist unless it adds 10 new menus and a new configuration file to existing technology
Re: Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
#17With my experience of working on +300 IoT projects - In majority IoT application edge computing is not required, devices generate very less data and perform simple computing or no computimg at all.In embedded usually it's better to keep things simple so that cost and bugs can be reduced. Most IoT application or solutions are usually not adopted due to hardware cost (capex) so keeping devices processing, memory and development cost low is important. Few measures can keep IoT deployment secure and you don't need a complex framework - TPM, Secure Boot, Secure Update and SSL/TLS are enough. I still see that such IoT framework will only be used in small % of IoT applications. With public networks getting more reliable and cost effective edge computing would become more of a maintenance nightmare than benefit.So keeping IoT devices thin and doing most of the processing on cloud is better. Though I do agree that in some application IoT endge analytics and computing has value. I believe we are living in a work of political and technology hype :).
Re: Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
#18Lot of Microsoft astroturfing going on here at HN nowadays. Every day there are 2-3 positive stories about Microsoft. Or maybe they have just become a great corporate citizen suddenly? It's less likely though.
In enterprise there is two real options for cloud, azure and aws. Both are great, but a lot of us chose azure because we were already Microsoft shops. Their support is excellent, you pay for it so that’s kind of natural, but if I submit an issue with a high importance rating they’ll be on the phone with me on the hour until it’s solved with no extra cost to me. From a European perspective Microsoft were the first to…
Azure is not that great to be honest. Last time I used it (a couple of years ago), it happened to me that my VM was shut down and they sent me an email. Apparently the real hardware it was running in had a problem. That won't happen in AWS, where your VM will be automatically be moved to another server on the fly and you won't even notice.
Hopefully they fixed that by now...
Re: Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
In enterprise there is two real options for cloud, azure and aws. Both are great, but a lot of us chose azure because we were already Microsoft shops. Their support is excellent, you pay for it so that’s kind of natural, but if I submit an issue with a high importance rating they’ll be on the phone with me on the hour until it’s solved with no extra cost to me. From a European perspective Microsoft were the first to…
Azure is not that great to be honest. Last time I used it (a couple of years ago), it happened to me that my VM was shut down and they sent me an email. Apparently the real hardware it was running in had a problem. That won't happen in AWS, where your VM will be automatically be moved to another server on the fly and you won't even notice. Hopefully they fixed that by now...
I'm not defending nor using Azure, but what you described happened to me two years ago on AWS. VM shut down due to hardware failure and I got an email requiring manual intervention from my side (starting the VM).
Re: Azure IoT Edge: Microsoft’s 60k LOC open source Rust code base
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
In enterprise there is two real options for cloud, azure and aws. Both are great, but a lot of us chose azure because we were already Microsoft shops. Their support is excellent, you pay for it so that’s kind of natural, but if I submit an issue with a high importance rating they’ll be on the phone with me on the hour until it’s solved with no extra cost to me. From a European perspective Microsoft were the first to…
Azure is not that great to be honest. Last time I used it (a couple of years ago), it happened to me that my VM was shut down and they sent me an email. Apparently the real hardware it was running in had a problem. That won't happen in AWS, where your VM will be automatically be moved to another server on the fly and you won't even notice. Hopefully they fixed that by now...
While Azure isn't great at all the specific issue you have with it happens on AWS all the time.