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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@baldur

This is an extremely interesting read, and reminds me very much of what I read way back, in "Big Blues", about how IBM nearly destroyed itself with similar top level incompetence.

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft really is "too big to fail", or whether that's a silly concept.