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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by harikb on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:48AM (#22413585)
Back in the day, when I was part of a startup, the DB guy was all into making us write “provide agnostic” sql in case we ever wanted to switch to Mysql or Oracle. We were actually using Postgres. This was a nightmare.

Things started improving when we said ‘f-it we are not moving out of Postgres, let us at least use the best features of PG’

There is a similar problem when trying to use AWS with the constant thought about moving out of AWS at some point.

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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by Legogris on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:34AM (#22414544)
Yeah, this is a bit what I mean with doing it pragmatically - at least when you choose provider-specific services know that either 1) you have an idea of how you would migrate it or 2) it is a conscious decision to leverage a USP. By taking the provider-agnostic paradigm to the extreme, you have the least common denominator, getting none of the upsides.
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