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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by FridgeSeal on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:34AM (#23820047)
Oh god their units!

Provisioning disks comes with the caveat that on AKS, Kubernetes sees things one way, but Azure bills you in some bizarre, Azure specific unit of disk space and speed and then there’s whatever the hell goes on with the pricing / units on the SQL Server instances...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by mr_gibbins on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:48AM (#23829522)
Ah, you'd be talking about DTUs! Those are fun. Blended measures of CPU, IO and some other Magic(TM) factor. Impossible to predict how your workload maps to DTUs until you try it and see.
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