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This happens fairly regularly. Do HNers think that Microsoft azure and/or Ruby has a role in it?

• furkansahin 3y ago
  Why would Ruby play a role in it? Azure definitely does though. (ex azure employee here )
  • usrme 3y ago
    GitHub itself is written in Ruby.
    • chupasaurus 3y ago
      [0] is a my favorite demonstration of it. [0]: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1fc272b1aa393e6dc57 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...
    • enescakir 3y ago
      Don't underestimate Ruby's performance https://x.com/tobi/status/1728524453854756883?s=20 https://x.com/tobi/status/1728524453854756883?s=20
    • furkansahin 3y ago
      Well, when we say GitHub, we are talking about thousands of services. I don’t think we can pinpoint the overall operational failures to programming language choice. In my experience, these kind of issues are mostly caused by poor organizational architecture + poor project management. In GitHub’s case, I’m also confident to say the choice of infrastructure plays a much bigger role than Ruby.
  • zuck_vs_musk 3y ago
    > Why would Ruby play a role in it? Azure definitely does though. (ex azure employee here ) Oh yeah. If someone says C++ has poor memory safety than Rust then no one is triggered. But say something about Ruby (the language on a secular decline - https://www.dice.com/binaries/content/gallery/dice/insights/2023/github-languages.jpg https://www.dice.com/binaries/content/gallery/dice/insights/...) and the pitchforks are out.
• miningape 3y ago
  Azure is such dogwater - Even a narcoleptic intern could run a more effective cloud service using raspberry pis and a tin can. A better question would be "is there anyone who doesn't think Azure played a role here?"