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

Dawn Ahukanna 14h ago

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BashStKid

@baldur I was struck with the similarity to Boeing (amongst others).
Reality won’t withstand ever-accumulating technical debt without increasingly severe failures.
It’s impossible to scale ‘fixing the problems in post’, the firefighting engineers end up in customer production systems, playing Maxwell’s Demon against a million faults.