Andrés

For example, many architects favor not being locked into a database vendor or cloud provider. However, how likely is a switch really? Maybe 5%, or even lower? How much will it cost you to bring that switching cost down from let's say $50,000 (for a semi-manual migration) to near zero? Likely a lot more than the $2,500 ($50,000 x 5%) you can expect... 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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