> Most of the software engineers at Microsoft are not focused on developing scalable web services architectures.
Uh, MS literally runs Azure, which may not be the biggest IAAS offering, but is certainly vastly larger and more complex than Gitlab. There are certainly numerous engineers at MS who would have experience relevant to Gitlab (though perhaps not with their particular tech stack). It may not be most of the engineers there, but in a company with literally tens of thousands of engineers, there are few things that will be true of most of them.
> Microsoft isn't even in this same field (git hosting)
How is what they're hosting at all relevant to the problem at hand? This could have happened regardless of what the end product was - it's a database issue. In fact, the git infrastructure was explicitly not involved in this issue - it was only their DB-backed features that had data loss.
Additionally, Microsoft is in the business of git hosting, if only tangentially. TFS supports git, and has since 2013: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2013/11/13/... Your objection is both unkind and factually incorrect. The "mindshare" comment is a bit silly - even though they may not be as active on forums like HN, developers working on MS technologies are still one of the largest groups in programming (as a non-MS developer looking for work in the Pacific Northwest, this is something I'm constantly reminded of). I doubt your estimate of Microsoft's real mindshare is anything close to accurate.
> Are you an employee there or something?
This accusation is eminently not in the spirit of HN, and Microsoft was hardly the only company he mentioned. Whatever your personal vendetta against them, it's absurd to think that Microsoft is not one of the top pools of talent in tech - they're a huge company with a vast variety of offerings and divisions.
Uh, MS literally runs Azure, which may not be the biggest IAAS offering, but is certainly vastly larger and more complex than Gitlab. There are certainly numerous engineers at MS who would have experience relevant to Gitlab (though perhaps not with their particular tech stack). It may not be most of the engineers there, but in a company with literally tens of thousands of engineers, there are few things that will be true of most of them.
> Microsoft isn't even in this same field (git hosting)
How is what they're hosting at all relevant to the problem at hand? This could have happened regardless of what the end product was - it's a database issue. In fact, the git infrastructure was explicitly not involved in this issue - it was only their DB-backed features that had data loss.
Additionally, Microsoft is in the business of git hosting, if only tangentially. TFS supports git, and has since 2013: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2013/11/13/... Your objection is both unkind and factually incorrect. The "mindshare" comment is a bit silly - even though they may not be as active on forums like HN, developers working on MS technologies are still one of the largest groups in programming (as a non-MS developer looking for work in the Pacific Northwest, this is something I'm constantly reminded of). I doubt your estimate of Microsoft's real mindshare is anything close to accurate.
> Are you an employee there or something?
This accusation is eminently not in the spirit of HN, and Microsoft was hardly the only company he mentioned. Whatever your personal vendetta against them, it's absurd to think that Microsoft is not one of the top pools of talent in tech - they're a huge company with a vast variety of offerings and divisions.