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New comment by alex0ptr in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

alex0ptr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:52:22 +0000

I’ve been working with Azure and Azure Germanyfor the past years and have a strong history with AWS.

I cannot count how many times disks were not attaching during AKS rescheduling. We build polling where we polled Entra Id for minutes until it became “eventually” consistent - not trusting a service principal until it was fetched at least one minute consistently. The slowness of Azure Functions was unbearable. On Azure germany IoT Hubs had to be “rebooted” by support constantly - which was a shocking statement in itself. The docs always lying or leaving out critical parts. The whole Premium vs Standard stuff is like selling windows licenses. The role model and UI is absolutely inconsistent.

The stability, consistency of IAM, and speed of AWS in comparison makes me truly wonder how anyone stays with Azure. One reason might be that the Windows instances are significantly cheaper though..

New comment by alex0ptr in "Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in Go"

alex0ptr — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 11:25:03 +0000

Have you considered just using go?

https://github.com/traefik/yaegi

New comment by alex0ptr in "Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks"

alex0ptr — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 08:05:40 +0000

I think a lot of commenters ar forgetting another fact about the M1: It also offers low power cores, neural engine, a GPU and RAM all on a single die. Therefore die sizing comparisons to most desktop class cpus make little sense and money comparisons too. (Of course the article was about something different, I’m referring to the comments)