“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by tinco on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:30PM (#19082635)

It doesn't have to be that way, for a client I've recently set up a Gitlab Auto Devops on Google Kubernetes. Feature velocity wise it is nearly as painless as Heroku (which to me is the pinnacle of ease of deployment), but because every layer of the stack is open source we could switch providers at a flick of the wrist.

Of course, we won't switch providers, because they're offering great value right now.

I feel this vendor lock-in business is a phase that will pass. We were vendor locked when we paid for Unix or Windows servers, then we got Linux and BSD. Then we got vendor locked by platform providers like AWS and such, and now that grip is loosened by open source infrastructure stacks like Kubernetes.

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Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of propr... by sebcat on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:10AM (#19083327)

> We were vendor locked when we paid for Unix or Windows servers, then we got Linux and BSD.

NT was released in -93, FreeBSD 2.0 (free of AT&T code) was released in -94. GNU/Linux also saw professional server use in mid/late 90's. People still lock themselves in though.

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