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If you can trivially replace it with something else overnight, the SaaS might be a bit too simplistic to use in the first place, no?
by WA 8y ago
If you can trivially replace it with something else overnight, the SaaS might be a bit too simplistic to use in the first place, no?
- kenhwang 8y agoI guess the nuance of my statement would be, trivially replaceable doesn't mean build a better product. Good examples of what I consider trivially replaceable would be services like Pingdom, DNS, S3, Cloud SQL since you can either easily build a "good enough" version, switch to another provider, or deploy your own from source. Good examples of services that are very hard to switch off of are things like Cloud Firestore or AWS Lamba.
- henryfjordan 8y agoOr there is healthy competition in the space. I think OP means you should write your interfaces with SaaS such that changing to a different provider is relatively easy (just rewrite a little client code or something to fit the new provider to your abstractions).