I've always wondered how much of Azure is built on Windows Server (and .NET) vs Linux plus open source languages.
I wonder (more like, assume) that Microsoft has an own-rolled Linux distro. Surely they're not just RedHatting it in prod. Right?
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#22Am I suffering from confirmation bias from HN bubble, or is Microsoft really going downhill?
When was the last time Microsoft was significantly better than the competition (on the tech side) ?
To my knowledge, they always were between average and terrible, compared to their competitors
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, what do you mean?
I'll be getting downvoted for it but imho Ms never really cared about creating good software products and has been shoveling (at best) mediocrity through their wildly successful sales channels and through developing a stranglehold on public institutions (vendor lock-in). Azure is just another angle.
They cared when they had real competition. That was a long time ago.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, what do you mean?
I'll be getting downvoted for it but imho Ms never really cared about creating good software products and has been shoveling (at best) mediocrity through their wildly successful sales channels and through developing a stranglehold on public institutions (vendor lock-in). Azure is just another angle.
Oh now I get what you meant.
Businessmen as well as politicians are not interested in quality, it's just sales numbers and reelection.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why care if you got monopoly-alike power?
Because people can easily move off Azure...It is a highly competitive market
define easily! if people go all in on Azure they become very deeply entrenched. Granted it is usually something that could be migrated from, but not without a significant cost if you already have a lot of infrastructure on it.
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#26Am I suffering from confirmation bias from HN bubble, or is Microsoft really going downhill?
When was the last time Microsoft was significantly better than the competition (on the tech side) ? To my knowledge, they always were between average and terrible, compared to their competitors
It seems like they were just more average back then.
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#27I've always wondered how much of Azure is built on Windows Server (and .NET) vs Linux plus open source languages.
I wonder (more like, assume) that Microsoft has an own-rolled Linux distro. Surely they're not just RedHatting it in prod. Right?
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#28Problem with the Azure network infrastructure
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why care if you got monopoly-alike power?
Because people can easily move off Azure...It is a highly competitive market
If you're in a large corporation, it might not be that easy. I've been at multiple companies that have left AWS due to the fact that Amazon has in other lines of business been a competitor. So we're locked in for reasons that are completely unrelated to technology. It would be so much better if AWS spun off into it's own company.
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#30I've always wondered how much of Azure is built on Windows Server (and .NET) vs Linux plus open source languages.
Large chunks of it are still running on .NET, but nowadays, that's an open source cross-platform framework, so they're running it on Linux, mostly within containers.
Do you know their reasoning for doing it on Linux? Bigger ecosystem? Performance? I can't imagine licensing fees being an issue.