[jf]

I helped set up the first meeting between a Microsoft executive and Thomas Preston-Werner.

One of the moments that stood out to me was when Robert Youngjohns (the exec) asked Tom what it would take to have GitHub move to Azure. I was surprised that Tom had a response ready, saying that IOPS were really important and that virtual disks weren’t fast enough.

[winrid]

I had a feeling this was all related to someone trying to run a database on networked disks.

every fucking time

[jiggawatts]

Wait, are you trying to tell me that 1/100th the speed at 50x the price isn’t a great offer for Microsoft’s customers!?

Heathen lies!

Oh, wait… we have to use it? Oh, that’s terrible…