alt Hacker NewsOk, but there's no universe where a major Microsoft-owned property is not being forced to run on Azure. Just like AWS pushing to get off Oracle back in the day. It would be career-destroying to suggest otherwise regardless of technical merit (and tbf, no infrastructure is bulletproof, unless you want to port GitHub to z/OS on mainframe)
LinkedIn gave up after four years of trying: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/12/14/linkedin-shelved-plan-to...
Azure just has very poor performance and reliability characteristics. It’s a particularly bad migration target for a colo-based company that mainly runs on owned hardware (such as GitHub or LinkedIn). Requires much larger architecture changes than (say) a company coming from AWS.