Andrés

A significant share of architectural energy is spent on reducing or avoiding lock-in. That's a rather noble objective: architecture is meant to give us options and lock-in does the opposite. However, lock-in isn't a simple true-or-false matter: avoiding being locked into one aspect often locks you into another. Also, popular notions, such as open... See more

Product Lock-in : Related, but different is being locked into a product. When migrating from one vendor's product to another vendor's, you are usually changing both vendor and product, so the two are easily conflated. Open source products may avoid the vendor lock-in, but they don't remove product lock-in: if you are using Kubernetes or Cassandra,

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To some extent, we understand what led HashiCorp in this direction. They are trying to maintain a delicate balance: on the one hand, they are creating amazing value by providing high quality, free, open source software to a community of thousands of developers; on the other hand, they are trying to run a sustainable business, so they need to... See more