"Microsoft Azure is now so big it's hard to keep on top of all its features, let alone drill down into its ever-growing line of developer tools. That's not surprising. In the past two decades, Azure has become the place where Microsoft builds all of its products, both the tools for its own use and those for its customers. That internal developer focus eventually brings tools to the rest of us, as internal APIs and services mature and become shared with the wider world."
"Azure's many different platform services can be a challenge for developers, especially when each service has its own APIs and SDKs. The days of needing to know only a handful of APIs are long gone, buried in complexity and a Cambrian explosion of new tools. What's needed is a move to consolidate APIs across the entire service, bringing similar tools together so we can use a common grammar with different services, and making code easier to understand and easier to move between Azure services."
Azure has grown into a broad platform hosting Microsoft product development and offering many language- and platform-independent service APIs across storage, AI, and other areas. The proliferation of distinct APIs and SDKs increases complexity for developers and reduces portability. Consolidating APIs into a common grammar across services would simplify code, improve understandability, and facilitate migration between services. Cross-platform portability enables scalable code that can move from Windows to cloud-native and mobile environments. Emerging abstraction tools such as .NET Aspire and Dapr aim to hide cloud-native complexity while the Azure platform team develops a new generation of unified APIs.
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