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0 pointsbenbristow5y ago0 comments

Although it's slowly being migrated to GitHub (though they won't officially admit it), DevOps is a great service with a lovely UI.

The pipeline docs are somewhat lacking though IMHO but once you get them working, they work great.

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GordonS5y ago

I've been worried about Azure DevOps getting merged into GitHub since Microsoft bought Github, but thankfully I haven't seen any drop in the maintenance of Azure DevOps, not yet anyway.

As much as I like Github for OSS projects, I really love Azure DevOps for everything else. The CI/CD capabilities are amazing, and I haven't had any real issues with lack of documentation (a few small things here and there for sure though).

Long may it live, I hope!

lalos5y ago

I doubt it, the valuable thing is the GitHub brand but the meat lies on Azure. Most developers still see Microsoft as the old Microsoft of the 90s but they are actively working on that image or brand by acquisitions like Github or NPM. The inverse is most likely where GitHub is just a web endpoint for underlying Azure services.

sitkack5y ago

> old Microsoft of the 90s

Not to jackknife the thread, but most developers were born in the 90s and do not remember this Microsoft.

The engineering and dev managers DO remember this Microsoft. So while I agree somewhat they are trying to repair their image, with the younger crowd they only know MS as Minecraft, VS Code, Azure, Github. More people probably got exposure to Linux via WSL than all of the previous installs combined.

90s me would have thought hell would have frozen over, and now me knows it has.

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coredog645y ago

Microsoft told my previous employer (a very large enterprise customer) that they can expect ADO to be de emphasized at best and retired in favor of the GH offering at worst.

GordonS5y ago

They've told my employer the exact opposite, that they expect Github and Azure DevOps to coexist peacefully indefinitely, so I guess neither of us should read too much into that!

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GordonS5y ago

I've been worried about Azure DevOps getting merged into GitHub since Microsoft bought Github, but thankfully I haven't seen any drop in the maintenance of Azure DevOps, not yet anyway.

Long may it live, I hope!

lalos5y ago

sitkack5y ago

> old Microsoft of the 90s

Not to jackknife the thread, but most developers were born in the 90s and do not remember this Microsoft.

90s me would have thought hell would have frozen over, and now me knows it has.

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coredog645y ago

Microsoft told my previous employer (a very large enterprise customer) that they can expect ADO to be de emphasized at best and retired in favor of the GH offering at worst.

GordonS5y ago

They've told my employer the exact opposite, that they expect Github and Azure DevOps to coexist peacefully indefinitely, so I guess neither of us should read too much into that!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse