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Also, it's CosmosDB - it has a certain reputation internally in the Azure org...

Same as Azure Functions. Internally at Microsoft everyone knows that it’s completely broken and they don’t understand why customers use it either. Apparently it was due to an extremely dysfunctional team and certain team members.

Why are Azure Functions completely broken?

Have a play with AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions, then compare that with Azure Functions and you might wonder if what Azure has done is even remotely “serverless” FaaS or just a huge messy clusterfuck of an App Service which is billed per second and overly complicated to manage and observe.

Get something-out-the-door to compete with Lambda and GCF by hacking together an abstraction over Azure App Services - then improve things by version 2?

All 3 clouds have the same fundamental architecture. There's no magic "serverless", everything is just compiled down to a container or some executable package, placed on a server, executed as requests come in, and then paused with varying control and scheduling parameters.

Azure is a little messier than the rest but the end result is the same.

Please elaborate

It sucks, is expensive, and was designed by someone who was fired.

Let me take a wild guess. I bet they work for GitHub now.

Why would he still work for Microsoft if he was fired?

He probably is jokingly referring to the Nokia acquisition, which at that time is ran by an ex-Microsoft executive, whom rejoins Microsoft after the acquisition.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/tech...

Sorry but small correction:

s/ran by/ran into the ground by/g

Oh yes, I forgot about that important detail. MS was able to buy at a greatly discounted price due to that.

Do you have some sources? What was they fired for? I thought they got Leslie Lanport to design it

Do you love MongoDB, but wish it was slower, more expensive, and even less reliable? Then CosmosDB may be the database for you.

Frankly, I do not know why people don't build things on Kusto.

I haven't even heard of Kusto until now...

We use comos and we used to use mongo. It's a lot less hands off then mongo.

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