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Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Re: Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Post by mythz »

partiallypro wrote: post #18
mythz wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any well known YC companies using Azure? All the ones I know that have published their technology stacks are using AWS, which is why I expect AWS features to be more popular on HN since they're more relevant and useful.

Are you assuming that only YC company employees use Hacker News as a news source? Google gets just as much airtime as Microsoft and Amazon here, and Google is vastly smaller (as of right now) in their cloud business.

No I'm assuming a lot of the Startup and YC community here are overwhelming using AWS which is why I expect AWS stories would be more relevant. I just see a lot of manufactured hype around Azure and not many well-known Startups using it.

Re: Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

bitmapbrother wrote: post #6
3327 wrote: post #3

is Microsoft paying for up votes?

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-positive-reddit-com...

The bottom line is that any large-ish company who has a consumer-oriented product is paying for positive social media coverage. Even small ones try, as part of someone's job. The big guys just outsource it.

I expect one-third to one-half of anything positive I read about anything on the internet is bought-and-paid-for. I guess I should assume a portion of anything negative is also bought-and-paid-for by competing interests.

We invented the first, truly open and flat, egalitarian communication medium in the history of mankind, and then destroyed it within 20 years. Twenty billion web sites, and nothing exists except Amazon, Ebay, Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Good job, corporations of America. I miss the web of '94.

EDIT: Also, I have no problem whatsoever believing that Reddit is a veritable playground for companies to exercise their "reputation management." It's pretty clear that their moves in recent years were precisely to allow deep pockets to game their systems to their benefit. I think Reddit and most of their top-posters are being completely hypocritical in claiming that the system isn't stacked in favor of whoever is paying them.

Re: Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Post by 3327 »

partiallypro wrote: post #15
3327 wrote: post #3

is Microsoft paying for up votes?

How can you say this with a straight face when day in and day out Google and Amazon are top stories on Hacker News? Azure is the second largest cloud platform, it's pretty relevant.

The post had 42 up votes before a single comment. Don't you find that ODD?

Re: Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Post by 3327 »

mythz wrote: post #16
partiallypro wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can you say this with a straight face when day in and day out Google and Amazon are top stories on Hacker News? Azure is the second largest cloud platform, it's pretty relevant.

Are there any well known YC companies using Azure? All the ones I know that have published their technology stacks are using AWS, which is why I expect AWS features to be more popular on HN since they're more relevant and useful.

I wish I had a screen shot but the post had 42 up votes and did not have a single comment. Am I the only person that finds that a bit odd?

Re: Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Post by staticautomatic »

mythz wrote: post #16
partiallypro wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can you say this with a straight face when day in and day out Google and Amazon are top stories on Hacker News? Azure is the second largest cloud platform, it's pretty relevant.

Are there any well known YC companies using Azure? All the ones I know that have published their technology stacks are using AWS, which is why I expect AWS features to be more popular on HN since they're more relevant and useful.

I'm not a YC company but will share one man's opinion about Azure. We started using it because we have one piece of software in our stack that only runs on Windows, so we have a Windows VM and a couple Linux VM's running everything else. We're early in the life of the company so we're pretty much just using it for basics, but as a platform it's been fine. My dev ops guy seems to have few complaints on a day to day basis.

The one area we've consistently had real issues is with static IP persistence and VM location. At times, between our portal and an RDP session I've seen up to 3 different IP's for the same VM. Our VM's invariably lose their static IP's during reboots, which is a real nightmare because some of our vendors require IP white listing. We also can't seem to confirm that our servers are geographically where they're supposed to be. If we try to geolocate a server in US-West, we variously see it in other parts of the country, or even the world.

Re: Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Post by moron4hire »

3327 wrote: post #24
mythz wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any well known YC companies using Azure? All the ones I know that have published their technology stacks are using AWS, which is why I expect AWS features to be more popular on HN since they're more relevant and useful.

I wish I had a screen shot but the post had 42 up votes and did not have a single comment. Am I the only person that finds that a bit odd?

42 is an even number.

Re: Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Post by gecko »

jksmith wrote: post #7

Look for golang support in VS Code to continue improving.

It's honestly already pretty freaking good. If you allow for the fact that Go is a less rich language (syntactically) than Java, I'd even suggest that VSC for Go is on par with IDEA products for their respective languages. There's definitely stuff to improve yet, but the day-to-day stuff is smooth as silk.

Re: Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Post by learnHowItWorks »

staticautomatic wrote: post #26
mythz wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any well known YC companies using Azure? All the ones I know that have published their technology stacks are using AWS, which is why I expect AWS features to be more popular on HN since they're more relevant and useful.

I'm not a YC company but will share one man's opinion about Azure. We started using it because we have one piece of software in our stack that only runs on Windows, so we have a Windows VM and a couple Linux VM's running everything else. We're early in the life of the company so we're pretty much just using it for basics, but as a platform it's been fine. My dev ops guy seems to have few complaints on a day to day ba…

There's actually some very well thought out features related to what he's having a problem with. Don't just go with the "one endpoint per vm" that the default comes with in the older portal. Create a virtual network. Specify a custom DNS server or two for that subnet. Set static IP's on the NIC object in the new portal. Create a public IP address and bind it to that resource.

There are lots of options for fixing this problem. I'm really not trying to be all "read the eff manual" or anything. It really has changed a lot. Look at how some of the Azure Resource Manager templates fix this problem. They are all on github. The can show you what's possible even if you don't go with the declarative model for your environment.

Re: Azure Container Service is now generally available

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Post by learnHowItWorks »

mythz wrote: post #21
partiallypro wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you assuming that only YC company employees use Hacker News as a news source? Google gets just as much airtime as Microsoft and Amazon here, and Google is vastly smaller (as of right now) in their cloud business.

No I'm assuming a lot of the Startup and YC community here are overwhelming using AWS which is why I expect AWS stories would be more relevant. I just see a lot of manufactured hype around Azure and not many well-known Startups using it.

The world is a lot bigger than the view around startups. They are great and all, but the audience of this site has grown a lot and includes a large number of corporate IT people now.

Weren't there several AWS stories on the front page anyway today? Has "cloud provider" become as tribal as "phone manufacturer" or "os vendor/not-vendor"? That whole part of technology culture is just wearing me out. Research shows that some things in tech trip the same emotional centers in the brain as religion. It just makes me tired. Even if MS was directly paying for stuff like this, wouldn't that be in-line with PG's libertarian whatchamacallit?

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