alt Hacker NewsI sure wish they'd rewrite the Azure Linux VM Agent in Rust. That thing normally burns 10-15% of a core, and also blocks VM restart for tens of minutes, god knows why.
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loeg • today at 6:30 AM
I've seen certain MSFT engineers get a lock ordering warning from taking mutexes in a wrong order and "fix" it by using a spin loop + try lock instead.
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no amount of rust will fix the problems in azure that lead to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242