Another reminder to be be very cautious when you rely on services from MS or Google:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/...

(App Center is shutting down)

WTH is Visual Studio App Center.

Or let me rephrase: WTH was it.

@electrineer it’s a platform to distribute mobile apps (iOS and Android) to testers and end users.

*was a platform..
@Lensflare

@scor until 2025, it still is.
Let‘s call it a zombie.

be very cautious whenever you rely on _any_ service, period.

@tosensei true, but you need to be extra, very, extremely cautious with Google and especially MS. Shutting down stuff is their every day business.

@Lensflare just imagine it being another aspect of your chaos monkey.

the only way to implement a system that survives shit getting fucked up is to fuck shit up periodically.

never rely on the cloud.

if its in the cloud its not an app, its a service.

@Lensflare they like to acquire businesses that might compete with them in the future (whole idea behind startups aiming for acquisition, they know the bigger companies acquire potential threats).

Naturally, once acquired, a company that might have compete with say, google, is now google competing with itself.

So they shut it down after a while.