Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

Microsoft Azure has always been a clown show. I've found so many obvious bugs. The quality is not there and never will be. No serious companies rely on it. Use virtually any other vendor or host it yourself.

Substack is having its moment. First, deepdelver, now this.

This is an insanely blunt look into some serious issues with microsoft.

"isolveproblems", really?

This reads like Google culture too...

I've worked in Windows for many many years, no idea who this guy is. He is randomly name dropping. He wants attention.

When things must be shipped quickly, shit breaks and corners are cut; large orgs are full of disfunction. Not sure if such insight was worth of setting your own career on fire.

"The company formalized the idea that defects could be fixed through human intervention on live production systems" (From Part 5).

Uh...yeah. I think we all realized that years ago.

i run fastapi APIs on linode with cloudflare in front and honestly the simplicity is underrated. predictable billing, docs that match reality, no surprise platform regressions. for a straightforward API workload the hyperscaler tax doesn't make sense unless you genuinely need their scale

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I'm glad rust has good package management I really am. However given that aspect, it ends up forming a dependency heavy culture. In situations like this it's hard to use dependencies due to the amount of transitive dependencies some items pull in. I really which this would change. Of course this is a social problem so I don't expect a good answer to come of this....

At this point, it’s very clear that people nowadays choose Rust mostly to be part of the cult rather than clearly understanding its shortcomings and advantages over languages such as C, C++. It has gotten to the point that some devs after watching a YouTube video criticizing C++ for two hours, announce C++ the worst programming language. Unfortunately, such people become decision makers at giant tech companies too.

"The company formalized the idea that defects could be fixed through human intervention on live production systems"

Uh...yeah. I think we all realized that years ago.

What an epic takedown.

Microsoft should have promoted this guy instead of laying him off.

Did Microsoft really lose OpenAI as a customer?

til: there’s individuals/people that "trusted" azure at all

I only used that shit platform because some Microsoft consultant convinced idiotic C-suite that Azure was the future.

A former Azure Core engineer’s 6-part account of the technical and leadership decisions that eroded trust in Azure.

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TLDR: It turns out that Nadella despite being an engineer is actually quite bad at managing engineering. Who would have thought?

New trollaxor dropped.

Do not forget all that femboy stuff.

Any complex system - and these cloud systems must be immensely complex - accumulate cruft and bloat and bugs until the entire thing starts to look like an old hotel that hasn’t been renovated in 30 years.

The first couple of paragraphs felt like a parody of a guy who goes to a diner and gets upset the waitress doesn’t address him as Dr.

It didn’t get any better.

This reads like it was written by the Cleverest Person in the Room. I have to use Azure Devops at work, and some of the critique of Azure rings true for me, but the author-centric presentation was quite off-putting.