Deploying to the DARKSIDE
THE GOOD(-ISH)
Staged Deployments
Microsoft Infrastructure
Deployment options
Data centres everywhere
Probably easy if you use Visual Studio
THE BAD
Signing up
Yep. Credit card required, phone number verification, must create MS account, must provide address, must agree to some "interesting" terms
Everything seems slow
Static files handled manually
THE REALLY, REALLY BAD
Having your dependencies in your repo
cp -R ~/.virtualenvs/azure/lib/python2.7/site-packages/* ./site-packages/
No ability to run management commands
MySQL or MS SQL Server
Configuration nightmare
UBUNTU SERVERS, SERIOUSLY