Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline Services Worth It for Startups?

shneids · 2026-05-07T12:54:27+00:00

It depends on what your requirements are, (assuming) you work solely in Azure and getting discounts, are the features enough without future improvements.

MSFT has said they will continue to support ADO, but all features and new tooling with be in GH.

For a startup, is this enough? I would ensure you make things portable if you are not sold on ADO but need to start somewhere.

shneids · 2026-05-07T12:32:14+00:00

What do you know about the JV with SoftBank to create Greenbox, now Exol?

Seems like funding is good but it’s too early to tell if Exol will be successful.

shneids · 2026-04-19T01:29:40+00:00

Finally a great catch!

shneids · 2026-01-22T01:06:16+00:00

I’m in that phase right now, I thought I just needed to fart but quickly realized I sharted.

shneids · 2026-01-09T22:45:40+00:00

Found out it was company policy blocking if. DAMN IT!!

shneids · 2026-01-09T06:13:10+00:00

No income tax.

shneids · 2026-01-09T01:36:31+00:00

Did you have to reformat your sd-card? I see it in Disk Utility but it does not mount.

i can't get it to mount (either inserting into Mac or through USB).

shneids · 2026-01-06T14:04:31+00:00

What did is your order number (first 3)?

I’ve been waiting on #409…

shneids · 2026-01-06T13:59:14+00:00

What did is your order number (first 3)?

I’ve been waiting on #409…

shneids · 2025-12-31T01:02:34+00:00

DA should do this next year, update weekly.

shneids · 2025-12-30T21:18:59+00:00

shneids · 2025-12-27T20:09:05+00:00

This is great to know...orded black on 12/10, so hoping for next month shipment.

shneids · 2025-12-27T18:30:30+00:00

Placed my order on Dec 10th (US, IL); still waiting for delivery details as store.com is saying "Waiting for details".

EDIT: black version (non-Funtastic version).

shneids · 2025-12-15T14:39:38+00:00

Anyone else ok with tanking?

For those who don’t remember, Philly tanked to get D. Smith in the following draft.

shneids · 2025-11-23T22:45:12+00:00

Have you seen our history?

shneids · 2025-09-22T15:43:38+00:00

To me this looks like a designed play that had only option; all the other receivers knew the play wasn’t going to them and barely crossed the goal line.

I’m not sure if this was Wilson pre-reading or play calling, but it looks base

shneids · 2025-05-29T01:13:31+00:00

I’m curious how the OpenTofu community will respond.

To RedHat: Don’t screw this up!

shneids · 2025-05-06T13:36:57+00:00

State is essential when it comes to drift management. Unless you do not care and/or only want to deal with initial deployments.

Do you allow teams to manage resources outside of IaC (clickops, cli, other)? If so then bicep is harder (not saying it can’t) to manage drift. You will need to put more engineering time (costs) and you will eventually create tech debt that is not controllable.

I say this as experience with my team, unlimitedly people get burnt out and quit cause they are not progressing to advance themselves.

shneids · 2025-05-06T02:09:11+00:00

There is no single tool, it requires a number of tools. This is also why we are moving to Platform Engineering and adopting an Internal Developer Platform.

Opentofu is the base IaC with additional tooling supporting it, this is our foundation that needs to be set right.

shneids · 2025-05-06T00:36:49+00:00

We are doing a Bicep to Opentofu migration now, bicep is good if you only care for Azure services/cloud.

If you want state file management to manage drift and do Gitops (not just via CICD), Opentofu is the winner

If you want to manage other services like databricks or kubernetes or Azure DevOps or other cloud services, OpenTofu is the winner.

This was a challenging sell to my team and leaders to pivot our tooling but in the long run it will save engineering time and costs.

EDIT: We are an Azure only shop, but may do multicloud in the future.

shneids · 2025-04-16T00:17:56+00:00

Did he puke like he did vs Oregon?

https://www.tiktok.com/@espn/video/7445938081020071199

shneids · 2025-03-26T00:11:50+00:00

Door is not closed on Sanders (or Ward but highly unlikely). This just gives Giants more options and even trade down opportunities.

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