My company is making exactly the same mistake right now. I simply can’t understand how a European company can still make itself so dependent on Microsoft at this point. We Devs have raised the issue to our bosses, but there are still a lot of old MS fanboys around. Some people have to learn it the hard way.
When we finally onboarded the D365 ERP replacement, management wanted to run perf testing on it told them we could do it in JMeter, and we already had JMeter code that we’d used for the older systems, and we’d learned more than enough from including it in integration automation, that I was sure we could do it.
Instead they hired two chodes from an agency and told them to use some odd tool. Literally a month into that project one of the contractors asked me straight up why we weren’t just using JMeter.
They eventually cut those guys because they weren’t able to produce, and then went with some kookball Akamai solution (Cloudtest?) They didn’t even seem to realize that by going with that solution, they were going to be beholden to paying Akamai every time they wanted to run it. They somehow managed to cajole Akamai into giving us a standalone version of the tool, but they didn’t seem to comprehend that when you run it that way you don’t get the cloud.
It’s funny, someone asked me the other day why I quit that job, and I’m now suddenly starting to remember why.
It was actually a pretty good company, it just wasn’t a software company, so its tech decisions were often really bonkers. But that aside, it was actually a good company, and part of me kicks myself for leaving it – I’d probably still be working there four years later.
I might have needed a lot of therapy in the meantime, though
I’ll tell you how. My company has been moving to solutions developed and/or hosted in EU for privacy reasons, but at the same time continue to go deeper and deeper into M$ ecosystem because the management believes XYZ product sounds cool and/or works better than the alternatives we’re using. I’m just waiting for this circus to fall apart.
My company is making exactly the same mistake right now. I simply can’t understand how a European company can still make itself so dependent on Microsoft at this point. We Devs have raised the issue to our bosses, but there are still a lot of old MS fanboys around. Some people have to learn it the hard way.
When we finally onboarded the D365 ERP replacement, management wanted to run perf testing on it told them we could do it in JMeter, and we already had JMeter code that we’d used for the older systems, and we’d learned more than enough from including it in integration automation, that I was sure we could do it.
Instead they hired two chodes from an agency and told them to use some odd tool. Literally a month into that project one of the contractors asked me straight up why we weren’t just using JMeter.
They eventually cut those guys because they weren’t able to produce, and then went with some kookball Akamai solution (Cloudtest?) They didn’t even seem to realize that by going with that solution, they were going to be beholden to paying Akamai every time they wanted to run it. They somehow managed to cajole Akamai into giving us a standalone version of the tool, but they didn’t seem to comprehend that when you run it that way you don’t get the cloud.
It’s funny, someone asked me the other day why I quit that job, and I’m now suddenly starting to remember why.
It was actually a pretty good company, it just wasn’t a software company, so its tech decisions were often really bonkers. But that aside, it was actually a good company, and part of me kicks myself for leaving it – I’d probably still be working there four years later.
I might have needed a lot of therapy in the meantime, though
I’ll tell you how. My company has been moving to solutions developed and/or hosted in EU for privacy reasons, but at the same time continue to go deeper and deeper into M$ ecosystem because the management believes XYZ product sounds cool and/or works better than the alternatives we’re using. I’m just waiting for this circus to fall apart.