Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley
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#2I'm one of the open source engineers spending a fair chunk of time helping YC companies that are making use of this deal.
Personally, I don't think that money buys love. It gets us attention, but I believe that we'll only win people over by providing an awesome cloud solution. Furthermore, I'm hoping that doing so much of our development out in the open on Github allows devs to see what we're doing, that we care about it being awesome, and that we're not afraid to sit down and quickly put out a repo with code if we run into a company that needs something.
If anybody has questions, I'm happy to answer them.
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#3I'm one of the open source engineers spending a fair chunk of time helping YC companies that are making use of this deal. Personally, I don't think that money buys love. It gets us attention, but I believe that we'll only win people over by providing an awesome cloud solution. Furthermore, I'm hoping that doing so much of our development out in the open on Github allows devs to see what we're doing, that we care abou…
In my corner of the valley it seems to be working. Keep it up!
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#4The major selling point of Microsoft Azure for me is that RDMA over Infiniband is supported on select machine types. This type of networking technology is necessarily for important classes of applications (HPC) as well as for new types of infrastructure (e.g. memory clouds). Yet, so far RDMA networking in Azure is only available on their Windows VMs. I've seen mention that Linux support is in the works, but the last time I checked a couple months ago it was still not supported.
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#5The Microsoft of late is definitely generating positive impressions all around and I can't say I disagree with this.
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#6I'm one of the open source engineers spending a fair chunk of time helping YC companies that are making use of this deal. Personally, I don't think that money buys love. It gets us attention, but I believe that we'll only win people over by providing an awesome cloud solution. Furthermore, I'm hoping that doing so much of our development out in the open on Github allows devs to see what we're doing, that we care abou…
I have a question: when will XNA be open-sourced? There are tons of people that want a sequel and MonoGame could use a quality boost.
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
Also C# on XBox One had been promised like a year ago but nothing happened:
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
What is the point of User Voice then?
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#7I'm one of the open source engineers spending a fair chunk of time helping YC companies that are making use of this deal. Personally, I don't think that money buys love. It gets us attention, but I believe that we'll only win people over by providing an awesome cloud solution. Furthermore, I'm hoping that doing so much of our development out in the open on Github allows devs to see what we're doing, that we care abou…
A huge sticking point for us right now is that Azure has no data warehousing capabilities. You're basically limited to "spin up a huge, expensive VM and install SSAS on it and make sure you have an expert DBA around that knows his way around all the little nuances of MS-SQL and SSAS".
It is honestly, in my opinion, Azure's current biggest failing. We use cutting edge features and marketplace offerings when we can and the space seems ripe for disruption with companies like Birst, Spotfire, and others really going on the offensive. Microsoft has one of the most mature Data Warehousing offerings for the traditional environment, and it seems crazy that after 5 years there's nothing built into Azure for it.
All that said, do you know of any plans, timelines, or similar services to a fully hosted SSAS-like Data Warehousing solution?
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#8I'm one of the open source engineers spending a fair chunk of time helping YC companies that are making use of this deal. Personally, I don't think that money buys love. It gets us attention, but I believe that we'll only win people over by providing an awesome cloud solution. Furthermore, I'm hoping that doing so much of our development out in the open on Github allows devs to see what we're doing, that we care abou…
A huge sticking point for us right now is that Azure has no data warehousing capabilities. You're basically limited to "spin up a huge, expensive VM and install SSAS on it and make sure you have an expert DBA around that knows his way around all the little nuances of MS-SQL and SSAS". It is honestly, in my opinion, Azure's current biggest failing. We use cutting edge features and marketplace offerings when we can and…
This might be what you are looking for, but I think Azure Marketplace has Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, etc.
AWS does offer some very special purpose data stores like DynamoDB and SimpleDB but I have not used them much.
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#9I'm one of the open source engineers spending a fair chunk of time helping YC companies that are making use of this deal. Personally, I don't think that money buys love. It gets us attention, but I believe that we'll only win people over by providing an awesome cloud solution. Furthermore, I'm hoping that doing so much of our development out in the open on Github allows devs to see what we're doing, that we care abou…
For what it's worth, I am in BizSpark and I have found using the Ubuntu VPSs to be totally hassle free. One question: on AWS, I used to use cron jobs to take snapshots of Postgres, etc. data stores and stuff them in S3 as an ad hoc twice a day backup. Is there something similar on Azure?
Re: Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley
#10I'm one of the open source engineers spending a fair chunk of time helping YC companies that are making use of this deal. Personally, I don't think that money buys love. It gets us attention, but I believe that we'll only win people over by providing an awesome cloud solution. Furthermore, I'm hoping that doing so much of our development out in the open on Github allows devs to see what we're doing, that we care abou…
For what it's worth, I am in BizSpark and I have found using the Ubuntu VPSs to be totally hassle free. One question: on AWS, I used to use cron jobs to take snapshots of Postgres, etc. data stores and stuff them in S3 as an ad hoc twice a day backup. Is there something similar on Azure?
I've never been a huge fan of the "snapshot and pray" school of backups. This tool does it right and supports S3 and Azure storage (equivalent to S3).
https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
Also: Azure SQL is $15/month and includes restoration of the database to any point in time in the last 14 days. I LOVE Postgres but finally gave into this value proposition.