Andrés

The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more

Legal lock-in : You may be locked into a specific solution for legal reasons, such as compliance. For example, you might not be able to migrate your data to another cloud provider's data center if it's located outside your country. Your software provider's license may also not allow you to move your systems to the cloud even though they'd run

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This led to a virtuous cycle: as more companies adopt Terraform, more developers start using it; those developers contribute to Terraform, fixing bugs, improving security, adding new features, creating new tools and extensions, etc.; that makes Terraform even more compelling, so even more companies adopt it, and the cycle continues. As a result,... See more

As a result of the change to BSL, there is now no certainty with using Terraform:

• If you’re a CTO, and you’re picking an IaC tool to use at your company, if you see that Terraform is BSL licensed, why take the risk? You’re now much more likely to go with alternative tools that are truly open source and have no licensing headaches.


• If you’re on the

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