Spent half the day at the #redshirtdublin Microsoft Azure event at UCD watching #ScottGuthrie talking about new features in Azure and Visual Studio. Some great features – especially Cosmos DB, the Azure Logic Apps for easily harnessing machine learning functionality; and my personal favourite – the ability to build iOS apps in Visual Studio without the need for a Mac.
Although Microsoft is definitely moving in the right direction regarding support of industry standards (such as git and linux etc) it still very much feels that to get the most out of Azure you have to wholeheartedly embrace the entire ecosystem – options to easily plug other 3rd party tools efficiently were not mentioned.
Great to bump into some old colleagues, and hang out on the UCD campus in the fabulous sunshine.
From start-up concept towards reality…