Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages

It was a tricky weekend for techies – not only did Microsoft's Azure Resource Manager fall over across the globe on January 21, 2024, local UK retailing giant Tesco also suffered an outage, cancelling multiple customer deliveries and orders due to "technical difficulties." According to Microsoft, the Azure woes started at 0157 …

[wolfetone]

"All who posted on social media regarding the short-notice cancellations seemed rather put out by the experience."

I admire their optimism. All yesterday saved them from was the disappointment of their bag of frozen broccoli being substituted with a bag of frozen chopped onions.

[tiggity]

@wolfetone

Broccoli* being replaced by many things is a source of joy, not disappointment

* for supertasters and many kids (taste changes over time, young kids do not deal well with bitter foods, the famed many kids hate greens trope has a basis in developmental biology) broccoli is very unpleasant

[airbrush]

Their acr service was degraded yesterday so had build timeouts all day, it's not surprising these instances occur but sure that's not what they say when selling it. Using Azure DevOps can be even more expensive when factoring in downtime and time consuming processes so you have to be very very careful