There was a great article awhile back that shed some light on just how dysfunctional azure is as a platform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
replyIf I had to guess it's because Github is sitting on top on infrastructure held up by toothpicks and duct tape
Which is somewhat humorous because it was arguably more stable when they ran on their own hosted colo infra before moving to Azure. This was a choice versus keeping the infra compartmentalized and using Azure for elastic overflow compute needs. I'm sure marketing and bonuses rest on throwing it all on the Azure quicksand though.
replyGitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517173 - October 2025 (63 comments)
> Are these outages caused by introduced bugs, though, or by load issues?
replyProbably both. But it still throws a thorn into the theory that LLMs are about to replace software engineers any day now.
You'd think they could LLM-code their way out of this situation easily if LLMs were the software engineer replacement they are being marketed as.