Comment by TomMasz
3 days ago
The "no one at Microsoft, not a single soul, could articulate why up to 173 agents were needed to manage an Azure node" really stuck with me. You have to wonder how many other parts of the code lack ownership and are in there just because no one knows what will happen if you take them out.
This reminds me of discussions of the “MinWin” initiative back in the Windows 7 timeframe, and how the obstacle was that nobody actually knew what you could take out of Windows and still have it work, so they had to be conservative.