TripAdvisor had a very strong “no lock in” policy that impacted the technical stacks we could keep/choose when we got bought by them. We could use an nginx ins

TripAdvisor had a very strong “no lock in” policy that impacted the technical stacks we could keep/choose when we got bought by them. We could use an nginx installed and maintained on EC2 by ourselves but not the AWS flavor on it, or I guess we’d have needed to fight to get an exception. That’s just an anecdote, but I am sure more companies put real money behind getting “locked in”.