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They’re the same asshats. With a thin layer of marketing veneer over the top, telemetry underneath all floating on a vat of poor testing, poor delivery and poor

• grogenaut 4y ago
  I think it's more that your comment is 95% salt and 5% substance an so isn't adding much to the conversation. More details like the connect issue and less "ash and dregs".
  • iasay 4y ago
    I will write up the 30 years of using MSFT stacks and OS up at some point. That’ll be 100% substance. But the salt will have to remain. If you want to see the real MSFT check out the dotnet team handling of the customer demands to remove telemetry. This is on GitHub issues. Or was if they haven’t reorganised all the repos again thus backing up the other schizophrenic donkey comment.
    • ghuntley 4y ago
      See https://isdotnetopen.com https://isdotnetopen.com
      • iasay 4y ago
        Well that was an interesting read and entirely unsurprising. I would never consider building a new product on .Net. It’s an insane proposition at this point.
  • tremon 4y ago
    Well, to give just one example: zip deploys (code) to azure functions always return 200 OK, regardless of whether the deployment actually succeeded. To know if the deployment succeeded, you need to use a second API (the kudu mgmt api) to access the text logs, and scan the text logs for errors. Due to our CI infrastructure, we do multiple deploys per day, and I can tell you that most of our deployments require 2-3 attempts to deploy successfully. We have a whole salt mine of workarounds like that in our deployment infrastructure. It's been that way for years. Every now and then, they pull another Microsoft on top of this. The latest that I remember is that even after successful deployment, the function would actually not get activated until you polled its existence using the Az cli tools. We hit that one because we used the Powershell Az module, and of course the cli tools and powershell exercise different code paths :/
    • smackeyacky 4y ago
      Oof. I've come to despise Kudu for these kinds of reasons. We ended up ditching direct zip deployments and now do Docker images, which get pulled automatically using the webhook on the container registry. It is far more reliable and also far easier to integrate into a devops pipeline.
    • anirudhgarg 4y ago
      Hi tremon. I work for the Azure Functions team. Sorry for the trouble. This should not happen. We should be giving you a proper response code when the deployment fails. It looks like you are using the sync version of the API but just double checking if you are using the sync or async version ? If you are using the async version then in that case we do return a 201 immediately and then you can use the status url to poll for the status. I would like to dig in and figure out what's happening here. For the PowerShell Az issue as well - it would be good to know what command you were using/what you were trying to do. We dont support deployment of code using the Functions PowerShell Module (https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Az.Functions/4.0.3 https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Az.Functions/4.0....). Did you deploy using AZ CLI and then using the PowerShell Module ? You can either share your Function App info here by using this method: https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/wiki/Sharing-Your-Function-App-name-privately https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/wiki/Sharing-Y... or just email me at anirudhg at microsoft.com and I will look into this. Thanks again for using Functions.
  • fifticon 4y ago
    I can add some salt on azure web apps. I routinely get "everything is wonderful" answers from their weird admin guis, for services that I observe cannot reach their database or even start up. Unless I operate azure from the commandline, the ui is questionable.
• la64710 4y ago
  AWS also actively work on reducing wastage on behalf of their customer and pass them back. Ther instance pricing have reduced some 30+ times I beleive.
• com2kid 4y ago
  > Couldn’t pay them to fix it even as a gold partner. People complain about the old MS, but it used to be if you paid enough things got fixed. Cough up enough money and you'd get a direct line to the lead developer of whatever product you were having an issue with. When I first joined MS back in ~2006 I got to witness this first hand, a high value customer had a problem with some C++ code and MS provided a translator and put the customer in contact with the compiler team. The issue with "metric driven development" is that if something doesn't move the needle, it isn't addressed. What the #s don't show is that the sum total of small annoyances lead to massive customer unhappiness. > while reminding you that they love Linux and open source while trying to get leverage and replace whole chunks of it with their bananas ecosystem. Many of the senior/principle devs at MS now grew up reading /. and hating the MS of the 90s. The culture there is massively different, both for better and for worse. 1990s MS had huge documentation teams and tested the living daylights out of all code before it hit customers. The massive doc teams were laid off during the '08 recession and AFAIK never hired back (at least not in the incredible # they used to be), and after Google/Facebook scared MS with "move fast and break things", MS got rid of their testers as well (as has the entire industry), so now the code isn't as reliable.
• Thorrez 4y ago
  >Edit: must be lunch time at MSFT. Downvote flurry. >Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. >Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html