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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.

GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517173 - October 2025 (63 comments)

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It pleases shareholders more to hear about exponential Cloud offering adoption than SLA availability for a developer platform.

Except, lots of devs use github, and see what using Azure means. Management is seeing that downtime too. So what insane person will ever touch Azure willingly?

Hotmail used to run on bsd, and they tried to move it to WinNT, back in the day. Same thing. Disaster. And it was held up as a reason to never use winnt for serious work, for years.

Microsoft just always shoots themselves in the foot.

> So what insane person will ever touch Azure willingly?

The nobody-got-fired-for-choosing-Microsoft crowd. And they don’t look few and far between.

And also the most important few thousand accounts will get custom support and all sorts of patchwork and MS will put the effort to solve all their problems. So the customers that matter to MS are likely having a great time on azure. And for every ten thousand of us chums that leave azure, there's probably one sweetheart deal won through wine and dine that more than compensates.

I think my age group (~40) is the tail end of widespread dogmatic trust in Microsoft. Once we retire I think they are going to be in serious trouble.

They don't need dogmatic trust, just oligopolies and monopolies.