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Comment by zamalek

1 day ago

There was somewhat recently a post here about how priorities, pressure, and management subverted Dave Cutler's vision for Azure (which was to have near zero human involvement) - my Google fu isn't strong enough to find it. Supposedly, someone running over or opening a serial to a rack/VM is now typical operational procedure.

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ok_dad  1 day ago

This one?

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...

  • zamalek  1 day ago

    That's the one!

    • consumer451  15 hours ago

      Amazing read. Thanks to both of you for finding that.

      > I later researched this further and found that no one at Microsoft, not a single soul, could articulate why up to 173 agents were needed to manage an Azure node, what they all did, how they interacted with one another, what their feature set was, or even why they existed in the first place.

      This reads like a description of the SLS-based (aka Senate Launch System) Artemis program, which somehow ended up deciding that the insane Lunar Gateway should be a thing.

      Destin (SmarterEveryDay on YouTube) [0] called out the entire nutball scheme to NASA, at NASA. This includes the SLS/Orion/Lunar Gateway insanity, and calling out the number of unknown, but very large number, of on-orbit refuelings that Starship would need to get to the moon.

      In that video's comments, I believe there is someone who worked on the Orion-related system, who says ~"Yeah, we thought the delta-v was too low, we could have increased it, but no one was speaking with each other at a whole system level."

      The mission drift at large orgs, gov and corp, is a huge problem that might one day be solved?

      [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU

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