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1. yomismoaqui · 1785939907 · focus · HN ↗

   Everytime I read about new things from Cloudflare they look really cool but I cannot shake the feeling of not wanting to use them for fear of lock-in, am I too paranoid?

   1. inerte · 1785941674 · focus · HN ↗

      Yes. Be locked in. It's better to go 100% and only pay the switch costs if you have to.

      Developing abstractions to let you switch technologies has 2 costs: The actual development, and not fully utilizing a specific technology. Lots of people prefer pain in small doses because it can be rationalized as eventual payoff.

      There are degrees of this decision, of course, but I would say most folks worry too much about this particular champagne problem.

      1. dingaling · 1785945090 · focus · HN ↗

         > Yes. Be locked in.

         That'd be fine if the decision just affected the decision-maker's system. But the secondary effects are that it binds the external users of that system to the vendor's ToS.

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