Microsoft mocked as outage explanation points to no reserve capacity

esrtweet · x · 2026-11-13

Microsoft's explanation that "servers returned to service can become unresponsive again once they receive traffic" drew ridicule: @esrtweet reads it as broken capacity planning, no reserve capacity or tested hotswap, with infrastructure teetering on collapse; the repost ties it to layoffs of 60k engineers.

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