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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 throwaway173738 »

chillfox wrote: post #94
yoyohello13 wrote: post #27

I don't know if any of this is true, but as a user of Azure every day this would explain so much. The Azure UI feels like a janky mess, barely being held together. The documentation is obviously entirely written by AI and is constantly out of date or wrong. They offer such a huge volume of services it's nearly impossible to figure out what service you actually want/need without consultants, and when you finally get t…

I remember being impressed with the Azure docs... until I spend a week implementing something, only to have it completely fail when deployed to the test environment because GraphAPI did not work as documented. The beautiful docs were a complete lie. These days I don't even bother looking at the docs when doing stuff with Azure.

I can’t count the number of times the docs have been totally wrong.

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

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Post by anonymars »

cebert wrote: post #80
cyanydeez wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That outlook was part of the ablative outlook armor thats suppose to burn off on reentry

Do you have a source for that? I don’t see what impact consumer email software would have with the composition of the heat shield.

I believe this one would fall under "incongruity theory"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_humor#Incongruity_...

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

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Post by dh2022 »

grensley wrote: post #107
_pdp_ wrote: post #58

The personal account makes a lot of sense, although I could easily see why the OP was not successful. Even if you are an excellent engineer, making people do things, accept ideas, and in general hear you requires a completely different skill altogether - basically being a good communicator. The second thing is that this series of blog posts (whether true or not, but still believable) provides a good introduction to v…

Absolutely textbook "Brilliant Jerk". Dude just whines and whines and whines. If you're so good, why can't you get anybody to work with you?

I did not get that impression at all. He mentioned quite a few conversations with partner level employees, technical fellow, principal managers.

The impression I got is he tried to fix things, but the mess is so widespread and decision makers are so comfortable in this mess that nobody wants to stick their necks out and fix things. I got strong NASA Challenger vibes when reading this story…

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

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Post by john_strinlai »

cebert wrote: post #80
cyanydeez wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That outlook was part of the ablative outlook armor thats suppose to burn off on reentry

Do you have a source for that? I don’t see what impact consumer email software would have with the composition of the heat shield.

its a joke, no sources required

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

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Post by acdha »

ludwigvan wrote: post #21

I had the misfortune of having to use Azure back in 2018 and was appalled at the lack of quality, slowness. I was in GitHub forums, helping other customers suffering from lack of basic functionality, incredible prices with abysmal performance. This article explains a lot honestly. Google’s Cloud feels like the best engineered one, though lack of proper human support is worrying there compared to AWS.

I thought that about GCP until I used it more seriously and kept running into issues where they didn’t have some feature AWS had had for ages, and our Google engineers kept saying the answer was to run your own service in Kubernetes rather than use a platform service which did not give me confidence that they understood what the business proposition was.

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

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Post by nrds »

Anon1096 wrote: post #24

The post is so dramatized and clearly written by someone with a grudge such that it really detracts from any point that is trying to be made, if there is any. From another former Az eng now elsewhere still working on big systems, the post gets way way more boring when you realize that things like "Principle Group Manager" is just an M2 and Principal in general is L6 (maybe even L5) Google equivalent. Similarly Sev2 i…

I've worked at both Microsoft and Google in the past 6 years and the notion that msft "Principal" is equivalent to goog L5 is crazy.

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

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Post by macNchz »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #27

I don't know if any of this is true, but as a user of Azure every day this would explain so much. The Azure UI feels like a janky mess, barely being held together. The documentation is obviously entirely written by AI and is constantly out of date or wrong. They offer such a huge volume of services it's nearly impossible to figure out what service you actually want/need without consultants, and when you finally get t…

I’ve created a bunch of fresh Azure accounts over the past few years and each time I’ve found myself sitting there dumbfounded anew at how garbage the experience is.

There has been weird broken jank at just about every step of the process at one point or another. Like, I’m a serious person trying to set something up for a production workload, and multiple times along the way to just having a working account that I can log into with billing configured, I’ll get baffling error messages like [ServiceKeyDepartureException: Insufficient validation expectancy. Sfhtjitgfxswinbvgtt-33-664322888], and the whole thing will simply not work until several hours later. Who knows why!?

I evaluated some Azure + Copilot Studio functionality for a project recently, which required more engagement with their whole 365 ecosystem than I’d had in a long time and it had many of the same problems but worse. Just unbelievably low quality software for the price and how popular it is. Every step of the way I hit some stupid issue. The people using this stuff are clearly not the people buying it.

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