It's notable that they blame "our upstream provider" when it's quite literally the same company. I can't imagine GitHub engineers are very happy about the forced migration to Azure.

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tbrownaw 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> notable that they blame "our upstream provider" when it's quite literally the same company

As in why don't they mention Azure by name?

Or as in there shouldn't be isolated silos?

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gscho 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Having worked there around 2020-2021 there were many folks not happy with being forced to use azure and being forced to build GitHub actions based on azure devops. Lots of AWS usage still existed at that time but these days u bet it’s mostly gone.

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madeofpalk 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would imagine the majority of Github engineers there currently joined post MS acquisition.

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macintux 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That doesn't necessarily mean they're happy about Azure as a backend.

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debo_ an hour ago | parent [-]

I've been a software "engineer" for over 20 years, and my personal experience is that software engineers are basically never happy.

	▲	tbrownaw 20 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> personal experience is that software engineers are basically never happy. Being happy means: - you don't feel the need to automate more manual tasks (you lack laziness) - you don't feel the need to make your system faster (you lack impatience) - you don't feel the need to make your system better (you lack hubris) So basically, happiness is a Sin.
	▲	macintux an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		True enough. The world is never as predictable as the computers we program, and the computers we program are never as predictable as we feel they should be.
	▲	teej 36 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I’ve used AWS for almost 20 years and I can tell you it’s more stable than Azure
	▲	VirusNewbie 43 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Plenty of happy engineers at the other cloud. :)

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b00ty4breakfast 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

something about antifreeze in the dogfood