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Except for the fact that it seems like most Microsoft outages are self owns. I'm not sure how many times we've had outages due to bad deployments that somehow made it to their global infrastructure and only got noticed when customers notified.

Plenty of internal accounts from previous employees highlight this.

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Many of us insist upon not building Rube Goldberg machines that cannot be reasoned about precisely for this reason.

Most of the time we get demonized by resume-driven developers job-hopping every few years (seems like the lack of deep expertise is working out). Today we get to laugh at their expense. These problems were entirely foreseeable and avoidable.

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> building Rube Goldberg machines that cannot be reasoned about

What a great phrase!, can I use that in conversation?

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