Axel’s Substack

(Continued from Part 5) Over the following months, with the patterns I had documented — agent sprawl and testing gaps, the continuous influx of crashes, the security surface in foundational services, and the repeated preference for short-term mitigations…

(Continued from Part 4) If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.

(Continued from Part 3) Azure has operated under constant strain for as long as I can remember.

(Continued from Part 2) Circling back to the origins of Azure, Cutler’s intent was to produce a system with the same level of quality, unshakable reliability, and attention to detail he was famous for in his work on VMS and NT.

(Continued from Part 1) What I discovered in the following weeks and months was a strained organization, exhausted by constant incidents, millions of unattended crashes in the Azure node management stack, conflicting coding standards, limited security awa…

This is the first of a series of articles in which you will learn about what may be one of the silliest, most preventable, and most costly mishaps of the 21st century, where Microsoft all but lost OpenAI, its largest customer, and the trust of the US gove…

I don’t know Larry Ellison, the co-founder, executive chairman, and CTO of Oracle Corporation.

There is a gap in the architect’s toolset.