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I confess I'm very jaded when it comes to startup offerings. Basically im thinking "you'll be gone in 5 years, where does that leave me?" If that answer is bad
by bruce511 2y ago
I confess I'm very jaded when it comes to startup offerings.
Basically im thinking "you'll be gone in 5 years, where does that leave me?" If that answer is bad, then I'm not really interested.
I'm happy to use a product I need now for now, but I want 2 or 3 providers for any external service that is critical.
Of course track record matters. AWS has shown they'll be around. Google will be around, but their habit of killing things means I avoid them. Azure is here to stay. But your new, cheaper, faster, better hosting solution? I'm not gonna commit anytime soon.
Ideally you don't want to be dependent on 1 supplier. The risk is they Sherlock you, or block you (voluntarily or not.)
History is knee-deep in the corpses of businesses that made this mistake.
- fragmede 2y agoIn the abstract, that's an easy platitude to throw around. And hindsight is easy. The problem is there are real opportunity costs on not being dependent on 1 supplier/vendor/integration/aws-region/etc, and you can't know, in advance, which one's Synapse, and which one is AWS, and you're always going to be vulnerable to black swan events. There's little history written about shots not fired.
- physicsguy 2y agoIt depends enormously on the type of business... a startup that might not be around in 5 years can take a punt on embedding a product like this into their main offering, but a big company that has a public reputation to manage probably can't.
- spywaregorilla 2y ago> you can't know, in advance, which one's Synapse, and which one is AWS, AWS is the one with ~$100,000,000,000 per year in revenue