alt Hacker NewsSympathy? It's a Microsoft company that is being ran with a consistency of a startup in early seed rounds. Their downtime is abhorrent and unacceptable as far as enterprise goes. Their engineers look like absolute amateurs allowing for such low class work it results in their customers experiencing industry leading downtime.
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Sympathy negated by their 2026 Pwnie award: "Lamest Vendor"
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/microsoft-wins-lamest-vendor...
> Their engineers look like absolute amateurs allowing for such low class work it results in their customers experiencing industry leading downtime.
I gather that you have intimate and deep knowledge on the teams and the problems they try to solve there.
If you haven't read this, you really have no idea what they are dealing with. https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
Their engineers almost certainly are not the ones making the decision to let all the new traffic degrade their service for their existing paid customers.
That seems a bit crass but the underlying sentiment stands. Microsoft has more money than God. 4T valuation. When you say you’re worth that much, no excuses. Figure it out.
Typically when a company gets acquired, they get thrown a bunch of terrible initiatives like “change your cloud provider” that distract from their mission, executives saying “more AI!” and they definitely don’t hear anyone in management say “prioritize technical debt”.
and it has been so damn slow for a number of years now, it drives me insane.
This is uncharitable, rude, and pretty baseless. Unless you have a lot of direct, personal information about GitHub engineers, they’re dealing with a huge spike in traffic.
Is their uptime acceptable? No. But personal attacks aren’t necessary or constructive.