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Ugh. This is why you don't build on proprietary stacks like this. I've detailed tonnes of complaints I've had about the platform itself being awkward and buggy
by mmastrac 11y ago
Ugh. This is why you don't build on proprietary stacks like this. I've detailed tonnes of complaints I've had about the platform itself being awkward and buggy in previous HN comments, but this is obviously the #1 reason not to.
If Facebook can shut down a service this big, Google or Amazon can too. Moving a VM is (reasonably) easy, but porting an app from proprietary backend X to another is hard.
- st3v3r 11y agoNo, this is just why you should architect your applications so that the backend isn't all over the app, but instead limited to the outskirts. Then you can change providers at will.
- akshaybajaj 11y agoI disagree that Amazon can shut down AWS at this point, half of the company internally runs on it.