If you avoid all lock-in, you pay for the optionality with feature velocity. It’s often far cheaper to go all-in, and then migrate down the road if it becomes s

If you avoid all lock-in, you pay for the optionality with feature velocity. It’s often far cheaper to go all-in, and then migrate down the road if it becomes strategically viable. To that end, I don’t use things with no equivalent anywhere else (Google’s Cloud Spanner), but I also don’t avoid things like RDS, load balancers, API Gateway, etc.