John Siracusa
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Podcast Appearances
Yeah, private relay.
Maybe a slightly biased opinion there.
But I mean, having used these services in a professional capacity, I can't say that Azure was, let's say, maybe not up to the standards of AWS and Google Cloud.
Back when I was using Google Cloud, Google Cloud was also kind of the new entrant, but Azure was definitely weird and had like a weird Windows flavor to some things.
So I think there's probably a grain of truth in this.
But it can contribute to it.
It's basically like how easy is it to build a resilient system using these cloud services?
And obviously AWS is the...
the biggest entrant in this market and is sort of number one for a reason.
Google Cloud is slightly different in that Google's main expertise was building things for itself and it only later decided we should be selling this to customers.
But yeah, Azure was like, Microsoft's like, we can do this too.
And it's like, yeah, I guess.
Yeah, I mean, they acquired Shazam, so I wonder if they just left it where it was originally running when it was an independent company, you know?
Yeah, I was also alluding to, I don't know if Alfred does this, but the idea of like when you copy would run automatically and clean the thing out versus having to manually run a shortcut.
But for all I know, shortcuts can do it automatically on copy as well.
Anyway, sorry for slagging shortcuts.
Just it's not my cup of tea, so I'm not always aware of all the capabilities.
Should have known it existed, because why wouldn't it exist?
Why wouldn't it exist?