I want to talk about something that's going to sound a little debatable, but I don’t want others to make the same mistakes I did. For startups, ch

DevOps, K8s, and the Cloud

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I want to talk about something that's going to sound a little debatable, but I don’t want others to make the same mistakes I did.

For startups, choosing a cloud provider like AWS makes total sense early on. The abundance of services and scalability is extremely attractive. And the temptation to use AWS’ proprietary databases, queues, and load balancers is strong. They seem to perfectly solve problems and get you moving quickly.

However, the moment you start building tight integrations with these niche, proprietary cloud services, you're putting your startup's future flexibility at serious risk.

Want to migrate? Sorry, but Dynamodb has no real equivalent on other clouds. Need multi-cloud for compliance? Too bad, we don’t have any alternative to SQS.

Early on, you may not realize how debilitating vendor lock-in can be for scaling, optimizing costs, expanding globally, or accommodating enterprise customer needs. It also puts you at a competitive disadvantage because you’re not able to use that new serverless offering that came to market.