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A comment on “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017). Parent comment

Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by antt on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:44PM (#19081411)
I've been at places where they were so vendor locked to a technology that there was a penalty clause for leaving that was in the tens of millions. It obviously wasn't cloud but the point still stands. If you don't have options you pay what they tell you or go out of business.
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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by chrisweekly on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:26PM (#19082822)
Yeah, I can't help but wonder about offerings like AppSync; in one level it seems cool, but I recoil a the thought of introducing a critical dependency on AWS for a core piece of the application layer.
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