22 engineers on Hacker News describe using Azure DevOps first-hand: 6 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“It is slow as molasses, issues are more project management oriented instead of coding, quality gates are virtually non existent and builds are now slow.”
regret · production · spockz · 2026-01-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Azure DevOps, we deploy to Azure apps with a dev, testing, staging (5% traffic) and prod (95% traffic) slots.”
endorse · production · moksly · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is enforced using Azure DevOps' baked in pipelines and approval functionalities.”
endorse · production · rjbwork · 2021-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then we switched to Azure DevOps, and now I have tears in my eyes”
regret · production · Viliam1234 · 2021-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“DevOps is so painful in comparison, especially doing really specialized things like, you know, tracking work items”
regret · production · 1 yr · replyguy912 · 2020-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Azure DevOps did the same thing to me when we switched over to Azure AD. My account and repositories ended up in an entirely corrupt state.”
regret · production · zenexer · 2020-02-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Oh god Azure Devops is terrible. It's slow, the builds don't refresh properly so you have to always f5 if waiting for a build.”
regret · production · thejosh · 2019-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it had been working great for a couple of years”
endorse · production · 2 yr · philliphaydon · 2019-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to Azure DevOps for Windows testing for multiple large projects (Next.js, Now Desktop, Hyper) and it's been an absolute pleasure.”
endorse · production · Rauchg · 2019-01-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched over to VSTS from on premises TFS early this year and it has been great”
endorse · production · juice_bus · 2017-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use visual studio team services(previously visual studio online) for all our projects.”
mixed · production · Sacho · 2016-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the git repository hosting for a while now and I am loving it.”
endorse · personal · cipherzero · 2013-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“currently GitLab, GitHub, and AzDO, with Jenkins support in the backlog”
neutral · production · pxc · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Azure DevOps isn't the cause of the queue time problem. It can run bare metal.”
neutral · production · mmitche · 2025-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We recently migrated to MS ADO as our work tracking system, and that was the only time I've seen old stories/bugs migrated at all”
neutral · production · tablespoon · 2022-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“and deploy with azure devops pipelinee.”
neutral · production · SeriousM · 2022-09-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Wouldn't Azure Devops using hosted builds do basically the same thing? I haven't used it since they changed the name from Visual Studio Team Services.”
neutral · personal · scarface74 · 2020-08-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“2 build servers orchestrated with Visual Studio Online and local build agents.”
neutral · production · scarface74 · 2018-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use VSTS but we'll switch to Git soon”
neutral · production · GFischer · 2017-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My company is in the midst of a move from on premise TFS/TFVC to cloud based VSTS/git.”
neutral · production · Merad · 2017-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we only use VSTS for source control and project management”
neutral · production · dsschnau · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched the entire Visual Studio repo to git, hosted on Visual Studio Team Services, after we shipped Visual Studio 2015.”
neutral · production · timsneath · 2016-03-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?