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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by secondcoming on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:50AM (#38024332)
Maybe they don't worry about it because they don't think there's anything to worry about it. The most expensive part of switching cloud providers is data transfer.

That's where the lock-in is, Kubernetes vs VMs isn't that big a deal at all; annoying sure. For the record, my employer uses both Kubernetes and VM. The deployment is pretty much the same.

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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by scarface_74 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:02AM (#38024423)
The most expensive part is the staff and man hours.

Everyone here is completely ignoring the organization complexities.

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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by icedchai on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:19AM (#38025136)
Totally. Migrating anything is a PITA, even if it's simple. If it's complex and involves tons of code changes to eliminate "lock in", or more likely, move from one flavor of lock-in to another, you better think seriously whether it's even worth bothering.

Developer time is very, very expensive, and any time you spend "migrating" is time not spent building features that add value. Except in rare cases, the end customer probably doesn't care if your stuff runs on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

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