In the few days I have between jobs, I wanted to share an unvarnished perspective on what I've learned after spending three years working on supercomputing in the cloud. It's hastily written and lightly edited, but I hope others find it interesting: https://blog.glennklockwood.com/2025/07/lessons-learned-from-three-years-in.html

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Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputing

I recently decided to leave Microsoft after having spent just over three years there, first as a storage product manager, then as a compute ...

@glennklockwood The best times of my working life had always been when I was surrounded by people who cared about what we did and understood why we did it. It's hard for a team to develop that sort of common vision when preoccupied with short-term return of investments -- including those dictated by sponsors and customers.
@kpdooty @glennklockwood Definitely. It's hard to appreciate that contrast until you've been in both worlds.