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Discussion on: Is Azure Service Fabric still relevant in 2020

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José Fernández Alameda • Edited

Although SF clusters are very reliable, from a dev perspective difficult to work with them, any single change requires you to spin up the whole cluster, which in windows can take 20-30 minutes. The build process on Azure dev is excruciating, it can take up to 40 minutes to build and an additional half an hour to deploy.

The docker support is extremely bad, and definitely not streamlined.

I would not recommend anybody adopting SF for medium projects without understanding the impact that it has on the development flow. We are actively migrating away from SF because it is causing us an endless amount of problems.

The community is small and Microsoft has virtually stopped answering to bug reports and general inquires on their Github repository with 700 open tickets by now!

Sometimes I wonder how have they managed to mount Azure infrastructure in top of it.