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Jeff Wilcox
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Jeff Wilcox's personal blog at jeffwilcox.blog covers programming and career. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on scaling engineering on GitHub at Microsoft from 2k to 25k engineers, with a 2015 companion post on growing from 20 to 2,000 engineers across Azure, GitHub and an open source portal.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jeff Wilcox is a principal engineer at Microsoft working on Microsoft's engineering system. Jeff lives in Seattle.
Most-linked posts?
- Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-26
- From 20 to 2k Engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub & Our Open Source Portal ('15)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-02
What Hacker News says?
Sorry for any confusion! I originally intended this as an update to a previous post (years before we acquired GitHub) that had the title "From 20 to 2,000 engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub and our Open Source Portal", so was attempting to go for a good side-by-side comparison. Post from 2015: https://jeffwilcox.blog/2015/11/azure-on-github/ I do realize it's probably very unlikely anyone here read that post. Happy…
Comment linking /2015/11/azure-on-github/
on “Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft”Submitted Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft as a story · 225 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling from 2k to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My home network: Ubiquiti UniFi gear, fiber gigabit Internet (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From 20 to 2k Engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub & Our Open Source Portal ('15) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling from 2k to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft as a story · 2 points
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