alt Hacker NewsHow about not limiting yourself to specific services? If you've built your product around specific cloud providers services then that is the problem not the fact that there aren't alternatives to those seevices.
How about not limiting yourself to specific services? If you've built your product around specific cloud providers services then that is the problem not the fact that there aren't alternatives to those seevices.
Until two years ago, I did not need Google Dataflow as a very specific example. But then new business requirements came in and there were two options:
- develop something internally and support it
- use a cloud provider offering, fire it up and forget about it
The choice was pretty straightforward.