Thanks for the direct reply! I wasn’t aware it was ever customary to write to a board.
But I do see you have very clear concerns.
One thing I don’t fully follow is: how did it get from such a nicely designed system, built by Dave Cutler, to this — simply moving fast and building tech debt?
Our team of 8 SDE and 5 SDET became a team of 8 devs who also owned tons of QA frameworks. It was awful, except each tiny we deleted a test suite for not being valuable; that was awesome!
If the Azure org was flooded with senior engineers who did not have senior-level experience architecting production software... That explains a lot.
But I do see you have very clear concerns.
One thing I don’t fully follow is: how did it get from such a nicely designed system, built by Dave Cutler, to this — simply moving fast and building tech debt?