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Gregor Hohpe • Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in

switching cost (aka "lock-in"): how difficult will be for us to move to another solution?
unique utility: how much are we gaining from the solution compared to alternatives?

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

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Version lock-in : Besides being locked into a product, you may even be locked into a specific version. Version upgrades can be costly if they break existing customizations and extensions you have built (SAP, anyone?). Other version upgrades essentially require you to rewrite your application - AngularJS vs. Angular 2 comes to mind. To make matters

Gregor Hohpe • Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in

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