What I find funny and unexplainable is that this class of problem was solved decades ago with distribution mirrors. It's not really clear to me why, within the last decade or so, we collectively decided to centralize hosting on one specific cloud service whose downtime now affects builds across nearly every company.<p>What's perhaps even more surprising to me is that, after a repeated track history of severe and frequent Microsoft-Github outages in the last three years, it is <i>still</i> a hard dependency for so much of the modern software stack.