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> But I wonder if building lock-in is really in their customers' interests - or theirs, if people lose faith in them. People happily (or sometimes unhappily) l
by ayuhito 3y ago
> But I wonder if building lock-in is really in their customers' interests - or theirs, if people lose faith in them.
People happily (or sometimes unhappily) lock themselves in with AWS since it’s convenient and useful. And that’s what Cloudflare is aiming to be in the serverless landscape even if it isn’t ideal.
- RowanH 3y agoI guess there's degrees of lock-in. I.e. using some parts of AWS you know push comes to shove you could write a different alternative/use a different library. It's a bunch of building blocks. There's various alternatives out there for components. Without reading too much of Partykit + Cloudflare, if you base your whole architecture on the way one company works and perhaps the pricing is too good to be true, you're setting yourself up for a rude shock in future. Everytime I've looked at Cloudflare's pricing I've gone "that's bonkers cheap" for what you're getting, which sets off alarm bells that once a PE company gets their hands on it, it's not going to be that cheap any more.