Mastodawn

This six part series (link goes to the first part), written by a former core Azure engineer, is mind-boggling. Microsoft sounds like a dysfunctional company whose software is dangerously unreliable

(I mean, more so than it has been historically)

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

Axel’s Substack

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Dawn Ahukanna

@baldur
“first hour in new role left me with a mix of strange feelings, stupefaction, and incredulity.
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I’ve seen a lot in decades of industry (& Microsoft) experience but I had never seen an organization so far from reality. My day-1 problem was therefore not to ramp up on new technology but rather to convince an entire org, up to my skip-skip-level, that they were on a death march.”
- “Messenger” about to be killed as “message” is not received & shouldn’t have been sent in the 1st place! 🤦🏾‍♀️