> Netflix and other companies have created a really rich platform, between logging and monitoring technologies like this; message queueing; deployment; and so on. In the Windows environment there's precious little to compare to.

Have you looked at any of the following for the various gripes you mentioned? I came from a primarily Linux background until recently, but I know .net and Windows have good tooling that extends beyond my modest list below. Looking to Microsoft to provide every option is probably not the best way to go about it, not sure if that was mostly what you were looking at so far.

https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-windows.html (company I work for uses it for messaging between their services)

http://nlog-project.org/ (we also use that as a base framework for our logging)

http://getakka.net/ (never used it on .net but can't do without it in the jvm)

https://github.com/dotnet/Orleans (sort of like Akka, but with additional features)

https://github.com/MSOpenTech/Redis (it's a bit behind the nix version, but still well maintained)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577609.aspx (Netflix uses the Java port of that, fyi)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.as...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Monitor

https://www.jetbrains.com/dotmemory/

https://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/

http://www.appveyor.com/ (great for CI and easy to set up)

https://www.cygwin.com/ (when you miss a nix shell and tools)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell (for everything cygwin can't do easily)