Azure Feels Slow Because Your Dev Loop Is Broken

Azure isn’t slow. Your development loop is.

Most Azure workflows still rely on a cycle of deploy, wait, debug, and repeat. It works, but it’s slow, expensive, and makes debugging distributed systems harder than it needs to be. Over time, this becomes the default way teams build, even though it limits how fast they can actually move.

In this talk, we’ll break down why Azure can feel slow in day-to-day development and what’s really causing the friction. Then we’ll walk through a better approach: running cloud architectures locally to shorten feedback loops, test integrations safely, and debug systems before ever deploying.

You’ll see a real event-driven application built and tested entirely on a local machine, including how to trigger workflows, simulate failures, and iterate in seconds instead of minutes.

This isn’t about replacing Azure. It’s about fixing the way we build for it.