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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

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Post by a012 »

ragall wrote: post #56
SeriousM wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! We're using AKS with huge success so far, but lately our Pods are unresponsive and we get 503 Gateway Timeouts that we really can't trace down. And don't get me started on Azure Blob Tables...

In our case this was only a month ago, and now we're stuck because management thought it was a good idea to sign a hefty spend commitment.

In our case, we spent to much time of engineer time just to put up with Azure but there’s no good ROI. It took sometime for the upper management to realize Azure is shit and cut the cost

Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

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Post by whatever1 »

plantain wrote: post #76

I just do not understand how Azure has the scale it does. You only need to login and click around for a bit to see this is not a coherent system designed by competent people. Let alone try and actually build something on it. Who are the customers? Who is buying this shit?

The VPs who think that they got a good deal by combining with o365

Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

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Post by Frannky »

I was always very curious why people are using azure. Clunky difficult to setup and crazy prices. I know a person being very happy with them because of the credits they gave it to him. I felt I probably don't have a model that explains what is going on there and that would be cool to know why people pay them vs the competion

Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

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Frannky wrote: post #83

I was always very curious why people are using azure. Clunky difficult to setup and crazy prices. I know a person being very happy with them because of the credits they gave it to him. I felt I probably don't have a model that explains what is going on there and that would be cool to know why people pay them vs the competion

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Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

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Post by diamondage »

Frannky wrote: post #83

I was always very curious why people are using azure. Clunky difficult to setup and crazy prices. I know a person being very happy with them because of the credits they gave it to him. I felt I probably don't have a model that explains what is going on there and that would be cool to know why people pay them vs the competion

In my experience Azure endpoint versus openAI endpoint was way faster and significantly cheaper.

Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

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Post by jacquesm »

ragall wrote: post #56
SeriousM wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! We're using AKS with huge success so far, but lately our Pods are unresponsive and we get 503 Gateway Timeouts that we really can't trace down. And don't get me started on Azure Blob Tables...

In our case this was only a month ago, and now we're stuck because management thought it was a good idea to sign a hefty spend commitment.

Don't they have an SLA? You can break that open if they don't perform.

Re: Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

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Post by zthrowaway »

plantain wrote: post #76

I just do not understand how Azure has the scale it does. You only need to login and click around for a bit to see this is not a coherent system designed by competent people. Let alone try and actually build something on it. Who are the customers? Who is buying this shit?

Microsoft shops. Lots of C# devs gravitate to it naturally. I’m glad I abandoned the MS stack over a decade ago.
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