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Ex-Microsoft engineer blames Azure problems on talent exodus
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In 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators reportedly dismissed Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) as garbage, although they used a more colorful term.
Key facts
- As of today, 12.5 percent of all GitHub traffic is served from our Azure Central US region, and we are on track to serving 50 percent of all GitHub traffic by July," said GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov
- In 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators reportedly dismissed Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) as garbage, although they used a more colorful term
- One can reasonably infer that Microsoft struggled to meet OpenAI's demanding requirements on time and at scale," he wrote, and pointed to the layoff of around 15,000 people Microsoft carried out
- He pointed to the website Claude's Code, which shows a 4x increase in commits authored by Anthropic's AI agent in the past three months
Summary
Axel Rietschin, who worked as an engineer on Azure Core Compute for a year and as a Windows Base Kernel engineer for eight years before that, has now written a less dismissive but more damning history of his experience with the Microsoft cloud service. In a series of six essays (so far), he recounts how Microsoft rushed Azure to market in 2008 to compete with Amazon Web Services and squandered opportunities for stability while failing to support staff. "Azure never operated as smoothly or independently as promised," Rietschin wrote. "This foundational fragility, rooted in rushed decisions and wishful thinking about how fast the platform could grow and stabilize, led to small but ongoing disruptions.