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Man, you should have been there 6 months ago when they decided to start tearing down GitHub's own data centers and move everything exclusively to Azure. Seems they themselves realized this after they started moving, but imagine if you could have helped them realize this before they even started :)

[nextaccountic]

Made me think. Why not convert Github datacenters into Azure datacenters that have Github as their sole customer?

Then it's up to Azure how they will manage this

[hobofan]

That sounds like the worst of both worlds? The Azure devision that can't even reliably can't provide decent infrastructure products based on their own data center trying to do the same one a bespoke data center.

[benterix]

> Seems they themselves realized this after they started moving

I guess most people at Github knew exactly it makes no sense but they didn't really have a choice. Maybe some voiced their statement, got "we hear you" in response and were told to proceed anyway.

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Yeah, I don't know how it went down, but I also know exactly how it went down:

Microsoft Execs: Everyone needs to move to Azure!

GitHub developers: But Azure is not gonna be able to handle our load, we literally have our own data centers!

Microsoft Execs: Sure, but you're Microsoft now, please publish blog post about how in half a year you'll be 100% on Azure.

Few months later...

GitHub Developer: We've tried our best, users are leaving in droves and Azure can't keep up!

Microsoft Execs: Ok fine, you can use something else too, but only if you mainly use Azure and continue publishing blog posts about how great Azure is.

[alper]

Azure is the MS Teams of clouds.