There's not enough information to come to a conclusion as to what the 503s originated from. There is enough information for manufactured outrage, of course.

I don't see why one would want to run in-the-clear over the Azure network for SQL connections.

The author was doing hobby projects. Granted, hobby projects should run on any platform, but Azure seems to have less of that free tier you can get elsewhere.

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FreezeInTheDark 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh for sure you want to use TLS, what's insane is the developer experience of needing to implement it yourself.

	▲	hirsin an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The author chose a library that didn't support TLS, written by a company that isn't Microsoft. Terrible devex indeed but hard to see why that's the fault of the platform that required TLS.