WSL is geared at developers and aims at giving the same kind of developing experience you'd expect working on Mac i.e. use a graphical IDE but run CLI utilities and frameworks.
Also, from an IT consultant point of view I still need to run all the office stuff and other enterprisy pieces of software as well as developer tools and unixy stuff. This explains why Macs have been so successful in the developer world (go to any dev or DevOps conference). WSL closes that gap.
It's not designed for much else really, you won't use it to run server workloads.
Radios in France have a quota of 40% of French "speaking" music, and although you could argue the quality of French "pop" (it's bad), it did keep the industry alive. Of course, the quota of French songs on radio tends to revolve around a small number of tunes in constant rotation but that's the way commercial radio works.
As a cloud migration consultant, I see a lot of companies going dual cloud with a sort of DR model in a second cloud provider to avid tat kind of scenario. Yes, it creates quite an overhead but it could be worth it.
DevOps initial aim was indeed to have Dev and Ops working hand in hand using the same workflows and development techniques. The article is spot on. Unfortunately, "DevOps" engineer nowadays is more often the new name for "Sysadmin who does some automation". The "I do some Puppet, I am DevOps" syndrome.
Macs represent 15% of Apple's revenue now. How much of it is the pro audio/graphics market? 1%? Less than that? I switched to Macs 10 years ago primarily to record Audio with software like Cubase and Ableton Live and it was a definite improvement at the time. Now, the same software exists for Windows. Macs don't have the form factor or screen advantage anymore. They are expensive compared to equivalent PCs so you really pay for the stability of MacOS and the integration of the hardware and the software. Dos that warrant the price hike? Less and less probably... Being an IT guy, I do like that MacOS is a UNIX platform that can run enterprisy productivity software but I must say Windows 10 has made progress on that front and you can of course run Linux on a PC.
Wether we like it or not, a lot of "vertical applications" in many domains are Windows only (health comes to mind) so I wouldn't be surprised if indeed a lot of software used by cities in Windows only. Office is only a small part of the equation.
It seems Azure is not mentioned much in comments. It is by all account a hit and new features are coming weekly if not daily. It is well on its way to be as big as AWS revenue wise.
Secondly, I am an IT pro who switched to Mac nearly ten years ago and I am looking to switch back possibly to Windows 10 as I cannot justify spending so much on the latest MBPs (not mentioning the idotic lack of ports for "pro" machines). WSL is a bit of a game changer in the DevOps space.
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WSL is geared at developers and aims at giving the same kind of developing experience you'd expect working on Mac i.e. use a graphical IDE but run CLI utilities and frameworks. Also, from an IT consultant point of view I still need to run all the office stuff and other enterprisy pieces of software as well as developer tools and unixy stuff. This explains why Macs have been so successful in the developer world (go to any dev or DevOps conference). WSL closes that gap. It's not designed for much else really, you won't use it to run server workloads.
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Radios in France have a quota of 40% of French "speaking" music, and although you could argue the quality of French "pop" (it's bad), it did keep the industry alive. Of course, the quota of French songs on radio tends to revolve around a small number of tunes in constant rotation but that's the way commercial radio works.
As a cloud migration consultant, I see a lot of companies going dual cloud with a sort of DR model in a second cloud provider to avid tat kind of scenario. Yes, it creates quite an overhead but it could be worth it.
DevOps initial aim was indeed to have Dev and Ops working hand in hand using the same workflows and development techniques. The article is spot on. Unfortunately, "DevOps" engineer nowadays is more often the new name for "Sysadmin who does some automation". The "I do some Puppet, I am DevOps" syndrome.
Macs represent 15% of Apple's revenue now. How much of it is the pro audio/graphics market? 1%? Less than that? I switched to Macs 10 years ago primarily to record Audio with software like Cubase and Ableton Live and it was a definite improvement at the time. Now, the same software exists for Windows. Macs don't have the form factor or screen advantage anymore. They are expensive compared to equivalent PCs so you really pay for the stability of MacOS and the integration of the hardware and the software. Dos that warrant the price hike? Less and less probably... Being an IT guy, I do like that MacOS is a UNIX platform that can run enterprisy productivity software but I must say Windows 10 has made progress on that front and you can of course run Linux on a PC.
You still can't bulk delete images with Instagram which is a royal pain in the bottom.
Wether we like it or not, a lot of "vertical applications" in many domains are Windows only (health comes to mind) so I wouldn't be surprised if indeed a lot of software used by cities in Windows only. Office is only a small part of the equation.
It seems Azure is not mentioned much in comments. It is by all account a hit and new features are coming weekly if not daily. It is well on its way to be as big as AWS revenue wise. Secondly, I am an IT pro who switched to Mac nearly ten years ago and I am looking to switch back possibly to Windows 10 as I cannot justify spending so much on the latest MBPs (not mentioning the idotic lack of ports for "pro" machines). WSL is a bit of a game changer in the DevOps space.