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Ok, but there's no universe where a major Microsoft-owned property is not being forced to run on Azure. Just like AWS pushing to get off Oracle back in the day
by kjellsbells 27d ago
Ok, but there's no universe where a major Microsoft-owned property is not being forced to run on Azure. Just like AWS pushing to get off Oracle back in the day. It would be career-destroying to suggest otherwise regardless of technical merit (and tbf, no infrastructure is bulletproof, unless you want to port GitHub to z/OS on mainframe)
- semiquaver 27d agoLinkedIn gave up after four years of trying: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/12/14/linkedin-shelved-plan-to-migrate-to-microsoft-azure-cloud.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/12/14/linkedin-shelved-plan-to... Azure just has very poor performance and reliability characteristics. It’s a particularly bad migration target for a colo-based company that mainly runs on owned hardware (such as GitHub or LinkedIn). Requires much larger architecture changes than (say) a company coming from AWS.