Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
by axelriet on 4/2/2026, 4:00:27 PM
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
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by: vintagedave
What are we reading here? These are extraordinary statements. Also with apparent credibility. They sound reasonable. Is this a whistleblower or an ex employee with a grudge? The appearance is the first. Is it? They’ve put their name to some clear and worrying statements.<p>> <i>On January 7, 2025… I sent a more concise executive summary to the CEO. … When those communications produced no acknowledgment, I took the customary step of writing to the Board through the corporate secretary.</i><p>Why is that customary? I have not come across it, and though I have seen situations of some concern in the past, I previously had little experience with US corporate norms. What is normal here for such a level of concern?<p>More, why is this public not a court case for wrongful termination?<p>Is Azure really this unreliable? There are concrete numbers in this blog. For those who use Azure, does it match your external experience?
4/2/2026, 9:28:13 PM
by: pRusya
It's a nice read. Thank you for sharing this.<p>> Microsoft, meanwhile, conducted major layoffs—approximately 15,000 roles across waves in May and July 2025 —most likely to compensate for the immediate losses to CoreWeave ahead of the next earnings calls.<p>This is what people should know when seeing massive layoffs due to AI.
4/2/2026, 5:58:15 PM
by: nope1000
> The direct corollary is that any successful compromise of the host can give an attacker access to the complete memory of every VM running on that node. Keeping the host secure is therefore critical.<p>> In that context, hosting a web service that is directly reachable from any guest VM and running it on the secure host side created a significantly larger attack surface than I expected.<p>That is quite scary
4/2/2026, 7:41:46 PM
by: schlauerfox
"For fiscal 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earned total pay of $96.5 million, up 22% from a year earlier." -CNBC.com<p>and<p>"I also see I have 2 instances of Outlook, and neither of those are working." -Artemis II astronaut
4/2/2026, 8:24:25 PM
by: Bjartr
What a fascinating view into how the sausage is made
4/2/2026, 7:15:44 PM
by: gnabgib
Title: <i>How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars</i>
4/2/2026, 8:58:56 PM
by: acedTrex
This is an insanely blunt look into some serious issues with microsoft.
4/2/2026, 9:58:08 PM
by: andrewstuart
Any complex system - and these cloud systems must be immensely complex - accumulate cruft and bloat and bugs until the entire thing starts to look like an old hotel that hasn’t been renovated in 30 years.
4/2/2026, 9:40:05 PM
by: brcmthrowaway
What an epic takedown.<p>Microsoft should have promoted this guy instead of laying him off.<p>Did Microsoft really lose OpenAI as a customer?
4/2/2026, 9:34:52 PM
by: axelriet
A former Azure Core engineer’s 6-part account of the technical and leadership decisions that eroded trust in Azure.
4/2/2026, 4:00:27 PM