On the future of cloud services and BYOC — Jack Vanlightly

This great convenience and productivity booster also brings a whole new form of lock-in. Hybrid/multi-cloud setups, which seem to attract many architects' attention these days, are a good example of the kind of things you'll have to think of when dealing with lock-in. Let's say you have an application that you'd like to deploy to the cloud. Easy en... See more

• Effort : This is the additional work to be done in terms of person-hours. If we opt to deploy in containers on top of Kubernetes in order to reduce cloud provider lock-in, this item would include the effort to learn a new tool, write Docker files, configure Kubernetes, etc.


• Expense : This is the additional cash expense, e.g. for product licenses,

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