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Migration between infrastructures is always painful, so I don't think vendor lock in is that big a deal, if you keep APIs small and their I/O well documented (a

• kuschku 10y ago
  Migration between a OVH VPS, a local server, or a Hetzner rootserver is not really painful. I choose a preinstalled distro, deploy my script to automatically handle dependencies and set up the container infrastructure, pull the containers, and I have a server set up and able to run my containers in about 3 minutes, and connected to a central server so it can be provisioned containers to run. The entire infrastructure can obviously be moved to another hoster in days, because the hoster is just providing a machine.
• interactiv 10y ago
  > Migration between infrastructures is always painful, so I don't think vendor lock in is that big a deal, if you keep APIs small and their I/O well documented (and designed). hmm, not if the only thing you have to do it upload an image on a server, there is nothing difficult with it. And yes the vendor lock in is a big deal unless all you write is throw away code. But it looks like it's the purpose of "Serveless servers", throw away apps ...