I work for a company that now uses everything from Microsoft. They used to have Jira, AWS and tons of other different products, but now everything is Microsoft, and it's terrible. Azure DevOps is particularly horrific. It's like Jira+Jenkins except you can never find anything. Nothing about it makes sense to me.
As far as I can tell, the databases on Azure are all either slow, expensive, or both.
And of course it means we hand over all of our highly sensitive data to a company that has said that US law will overrule EU law. How can anyone trust a company that says they will not obey the law?
That's the thing. The decision makers are not programmers who care about good dev tooling, but executives who care about good agenda management. So Microsoft's agenda management is great, and their dev tooling sucks.
It really feels like ADO was just quickly patched together to they can offer it as part of a complete package.
Corporate people who decide what services to buy don't care about what the employees think about those services.
And regarding Microsoft, it's easy: paying for the whole package is much easier in terms of contract overhead and with MS the discounts are quite advantageous as soon as you increase the width of the package.
Short term and if you only look at the bill, it makes sense.
Long term, forcing your teams to work with shitty services is a terrible idea.
As far as I can tell, the databases on Azure are all either slow, expensive, or both.
And of course it means we hand over all of our highly sensitive data to a company that has said that US law will overrule EU law. How can anyone trust a company that says they will not obey the law?