Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.
  • mayabuttreeks@lemmy.caEnglish
    641·
    2 months ago

    Oy. Sadly, I suspect anybody who has worked in dev knows the outlines of this story: Management promising deliverables with unrealistic timelines and functionality; team leads with such poor internal product knowledge they don’t recognize catastrophic issues until it’s too late; poorly-trained devs squeezed to push out unscalable kludgy insecure nightmares “for now” that just never get addressed; systems gradually becoming a Jenga tower of manual workarounds and undocumented slapdash quick fixes… Ugh. Nightmare fuel.

    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      251·
      2 months ago

      The new twist to this story is those poorly-trained devs are given robot powerloaders for producing code now so they can slop out each teetering jenga block that much faster

  • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    TLDR: A former Azure Core engineer details how Microsoft risked losing OpenAI and government trust due to complacent decisions, including a plan to port half of Windows to a tiny chip, which the engineer deemed impossible. This mismanagement, among other issues, potentially cost Microsoft a trillion dollars in market capitalization and led to wasted engineering efforts.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      This mismanagement, among other issues, potentially cost Microsoft a trillion dollars in market capitalization

      so far

      no idea how are they getting out of this trouble

  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    2 months ago

    having been part of the Windows team since 1/1/2013

    If he worked on Windows 11 he’s the part of the problem.