Azure DevOps

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

Azure Virtual Machines like any other cloud provider works the same, nothing really diffrentiator in terms of cababilities as such, features are the same as other, on feature that I do feel is not availble any where else is the resolution seletion for the VM that is something unique and usfully in few cases.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Microsoft Azure's auto scaling feature helps to scale up the compute volumes when there is more demand or high usage. Able to Provising the favors of OS like Windows, RHEL, SUSE with a wide range of configuration, so we can choose the compute configuration as per our need. The most important benefit of this its cost effective when we choose pay as go model

What do you dislike most about this product?

The Azure Virtual Machine service is efficient for various workloads, but the price beyond the general-purpose tire is high, especially for short-term contracts.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Application Gateway offers a comprehensive suite of layer 7 load balancing features. At the application layer, it effectively routes traffic based on attributes such as URL or cookie, providing advanced load balancing capabilities. Additionally, it incorporates a built-in Web Application Firewall (WAF) to safeguard web applications against prevalent threats like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

Azure DevOps is a Microsoft service that helps developers work together smoothly. It provides tools for planning projects, managing code, and testing software. Azure DevOps is easy to use, works well with Microsoft Azure services, and helps teams collaborate effectively.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It provides different services like Postgres database, vaults for storing private key and database backup features.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Recently, I used its PostgreSQL service, and it took a lot more time to process API queries compared to PostgreSQL installed on a virtual machine.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Azure DevOps is great for teams working on software projects. It helps you plan, code, test, and deploy your apps smoothly. The integration with Microsoft Azure is a big plus if you're already using Azure services. Just start small, train your team, and keep an eye on costs as you grow. Overall, it's a solid choice for streamlining your development process.

What differentiates Azure DevOps from other similar products?

Azure DevOps offers us a comprehensive solution for code repository, CI/CD pipelines, project tracking and management like Jira and also wiki for documents. It is very easy to use even for non-programmers as it offers a no-code platform for creating CI/CD pipelines, which is useful.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

With Azure DevOps we can manage our entire work process. Backlog items, tasks and bugs, code repositories and pull requests, code review, pipeline management, releases and CI/CD, testing, deployment and monitoring.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Costs can increase quickly, especially for long-duration experiments.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

As a single platform for all DevOps processes, Azure DevOps is excellent. It includes all the components necessary to create a product, including pipelines, work item boards, test and execution plans, and repositories. It applies to all businesses, large and small, for effective and efficient product management with full traceability built in.