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It's a danger of all SaaS. If you can't run it yourself, you can't fully prevent this from happening. Of course, the benefits of taking on this risk may often
by datadrivenangel 3y ago
It's a danger of all SaaS. If you can't run it yourself, you can't fully prevent this from happening.
Of course, the benefits of taking on this risk may often be worth it. Smart bets don't always pay out.
- simonw 3y agoEscape hatches can work. I took a bet on Mapzen a few years ago - when they shut down my employer had features that depended on their WhosOnFirst API. Because the data behind that was openly licensed we managed to migrate off it to our own (MySQL spatial table-based) solution before the shutdown. It was still a big pain, but it would have been a whole lot worse without that escape hatch.