Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
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Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
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Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#2A former Azure Core engineer’s 6-part account of the technical and leadership decisions that eroded trust in Azure.
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#3It's a nice read. Thank you for sharing this.
> Microsoft, meanwhile, conducted major layoffs—approximately 15,000 roles across waves in May and July 2025 —most likely to compensate for the immediate losses to CoreWeave ahead of the next earnings calls.
This is what people should know when seeing massive layoffs due to AI.
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#4What a fascinating view into how the sausage is made
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#5> The direct corollary is that any successful compromise of the host can give an attacker access to the complete memory of every VM running on that node. Keeping the host secure is therefore critical.
> In that context, hosting a web service that is directly reachable from any guest VM and running it on the secure host side created a significantly larger attack surface than I expected.
That is quite scary
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#6"For fiscal 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earned total pay of $96.5 million, up 22% from a year earlier." -CNBC.com
and
"I also see I have 2 instances of Outlook, and neither of those are working." -Artemis II astronaut
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#7Title: How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#8"For fiscal 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earned total pay of $96.5 million, up 22% from a year earlier." -CNBC.com and "I also see I have 2 instances of Outlook, and neither of those are working." -Artemis II astronaut
> 2 instances of Outlook
That's 2 too many.
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#9What are we reading here? These are extraordinary statements. Also with apparent credibility. They sound reasonable. Is this a whistleblower or an ex employee with a grudge? The appearance is the first. Is it? They’ve put their name to some clear and worrying statements.
> On January 7, 2025… I sent a more concise executive summary to the CEO. … When those communications produced no acknowledgment, I took the customary step of writing to the Board through the corporate secretary.
Why is that customary? I have not come across it, and though I have seen situations of some concern in the past, I previously had little experience with US corporate norms. What is normal here for such a level of concern?
More, why is this public not a court case for wrongful termination?
Is Azure really this unreliable? There are concrete numbers in this blog. For those who use Azure, does it match your external experience?
Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
#10What an epic takedown.
Microsoft should have promoted this guy instead of laying him off.
Did Microsoft really lose OpenAI as a customer?