&gt; if it wasn&#x27;t stable, it&#x27;s cloud platform would be in serious trouble<p>It doesn&#x27;t have to be unstable, just less stable than alternative kernels, according to the parent comment.<p>At our office we use Gitlab (hear me out), and one of the CTOs (yes, there were multiple) was a big fan of Github and not such a big fan of Gitlab. Every time Gitlab.com went down, he&#x27;d rub it my face. So obviously I tried to find out the reason – was it a software issue or a development issue? I hadn&#x27;t even considered infrastructure issue – turns out, Gitlab was on Azure, and they were facing a lot of instability on their infrastucture. (To their credit, they were already evaluating other services to move off of Azure).<p>A cloud platform doesn&#x27;t need to uber-stable to be profitable. They can provide good services, good tooling, good support etc. at the cost of small instability and still be good overall.