Erik Ralston

While we did briefly consider Angular for our work at LiveTiles, the requirements to easily intersperse different pieces of front-end tech (from jQuery snippets to legacy Handlebars templates) mean the "view only" approach from React was a natural fit.

Typescript is "JavaScript that scales", adding strong typing, backward compatible asynchronous programming, and added productivity to our front-end development.

C# and .Net were obvious choices for us at LiveTiles given our investment in the Microsoft ecosystem. It enabled us to harness of the .Net framework to build ASP.Net MVC, WebAPI, and Serverless applications very easily. Coupled with the high productivity of Visual Studio, it's the native tongue of Microsoft technology.

Microsoft Azure provides planet-scale hosting capabilities across compute and data in many popular modes (IaaS, PaaS, Serverless, and more). Along with a marketplace of add-ons from partners, the cornucopia of cloud capabilities is deep in the land of Microsoft.

SQL Server - specifically as Azure SQL Database - provided easy integration with our ORM (Entity Framework) with cloud-scale hosting for high performance and geo-redundancy.

Visual Studio offered support for all of our key languages (C#, Typescript, and LESS), along with deep integration with Azure and Azure DevOps. It was a no-brainer for a Microsoft ecosystem company.

Azure DevOps offered end-to-end integration with the Microsoft ecosystem. From user management with Active Directory to deploying directly to Microsoft Azure, DevOps is the clear choice for an MS ecosystem company.