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by nijave 2050 days ago
How many cases are you truely not locked into anything? Even if you host your own RabbitMQ you're still coupled to the software. I'm not sure being coupled to cloud service X is any worse than OSS product Y. For the latter, you tend to need to have more expertise to run it yourself.

At the end of the day, you can still rewrite your code and switch in both cases. You can end up in a tough spot if the OSS community loses interest in the software you've already bet your complicated app on, as well