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

nosefrog — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:32:21 +0000

We run 1000s of machines in Azure. It's garbage. Very few features work. Nodes are always having strange issues, especially on the networking side. And the worst part is that Azure support has 0 interest in actually debugging things. We just got out of an outage today caused by the insanely slow SSDs that they attach to their postgres dbs by default.

New comment by nosefrog in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

nosefrog — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:20:59 +0000

> At some point, you will have many teams. And one of them _will not_ be able to validate and accept some upgrade. Maybe a regression causes something only they use to break. Now the entire org is held hostage by the version needs of one team. Yes, this happens at slightly larger orgs. I've seen it many times.

The alternative of every service being on their own version of libraries and never updating is worse.

New comment by nosefrog in "EmacsConf 2025"

nosefrog — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:25:59 +0000

Big shoutout to Amin and Sacha for keeping this going!

New comment by nosefrog in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

nosefrog — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:11:37 +0000

Front Door is not good.

New comment by nosefrog in "I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years"

nosefrog — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:24:02 +0000

What's the most difficult part of distributed stream processing?

New comment by nosefrog in "Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming"

nosefrog — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:56:10 +0000

It was low. I got a bump to 90k that year, then 130k when I jumped companies, which I thought was a mind boggling amount. Do entry level devs even get out of bed for $130k these days?

New comment by nosefrog in "Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming"

nosefrog — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:16:29 +0000

My first programming job in SF paid $60k/year 10 years ago. I'd like to thank big tech for driving salaries up.

New comment by nosefrog in "Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)"

nosefrog — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 03:54:01 +0000

On the flip side, my baby likes the small loud airplanes. He points at them and says "oooh!"

New comment by nosefrog in "There is no memory safety without thread safety"

nosefrog — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:36:30 +0000

Hi Chad!

New comment by nosefrog in "At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says"

nosefrog — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:15:09 +0000

I was vegan for 7 years, one of my vegan friends had the opinion that human hospitals should be banned and only animal hospitals should be allowed.

New comment by nosefrog in "Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful"

nosefrog — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:33:10 +0000

Infra teams like it, app devs don't like it.

New comment by nosefrog in "Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++"

nosefrog — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:41:11 +0000

We did that at Dropbox in Python for a while. Though they switched to async after I left.

New comment by nosefrog in "IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge"

nosefrog — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:24:01 +0000

At Google, they found that engineers L5 and above got more work done with RTO, and engineers at L4 and below got significantly less work done. WFH is great but it doesn't work for fresh engineers (who are often the most gung-ho about it as well).

New comment by nosefrog in "Show HN: Koreo – A platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes"

nosefrog — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:22:48 +0000

We use Python to generate these configs at my work. Ends up working out pretty well. I previously worked on the biggest deployment of gcl (the inspiration for KCL, Jsonnet) at Google and it was a giant nightmare and the cause of many outages.

New comment by nosefrog in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

nosefrog — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:39:51 +0000

Nobody thought Instagram and WhatsApp were good acquisitions at the time.

New comment by nosefrog in "Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS"

nosefrog — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:47:09 +0000

By health check, do you mean the kubernetes liveness check? Does that make kube try to kill or restart your container?

New comment by nosefrog in "Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed"

nosefrog — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:17:53 +0000

> When using Cloudflare Workers as an API server, I have experienced requests that would “fail silently” and leave a “hanging connection”, with no error thrown, no log emitted, and a frontend that is just loading. Honestly, no idea what’s up with this.

Yikes, these sorts of errors are so hard to debug. Especially if you don't have a real server to log into to get pcaps.

New comment by nosefrog in "Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually"

nosefrog — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:26:38 +0000

Reminds me of gcl (yikes).

New comment by nosefrog in "Things we've learned about building products"

nosefrog — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:20:18 +0000

The idea that engineers at Google don't get rich is not based on reality.

New comment by nosefrog in "400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure"

nosefrog — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:04:50 +0000

Yea, I don't have a problem with the quota, more that the "out of quota" throttling lasts 2+ hours even after the traffic spike dies down.