Comment by LeoStehlik

Back in 2011 at Fujitsu, I ran one of the earliest Azure production subscriptions outside Microsoft. Windows Azure, mid-2011. I've watched this platform for 15 years from the outside.

Part 1 barely scratches the surface. Read parts 2 through 6.

The 173 agents story, the 200 manual node interventions per day, the WireServer sitting on the secure host side with unencrypted tenant memory mixed in shared address space, the letters to the EVP, the CEO, the Board - not a single acknowledgment.

The most damning thing in this series ... except for technical debt ... is the silence at the top when someone handed them the diagnosis on a plate.

Cutler's original vision was "no human touch." The gap between that and what Azure actually became is where the trillion dollars went.

Go read the rest. It's worth it.

Meanwhile on LinkedIn, there are still comments how adorable Microsoft leadership under Satya is... a carefully crafted PR image.