Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
Summary
An insider account from a former Azure Core engineer describing a series of questionable architectural decisions, including exploration of porting Windows features to an ARM-based Overlake accelerator and skepticism about the practicality of such a plan. The author argues that the stack's complexity, 173 agents, and governance gaps contributed to reliability and trust issues for Azure customers, including OpenAI on Azure and government workloads.