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Vendor lock in is a non issue. Prices have been dropping across the board for basically all cloud services across all providers as long as cloud has been a thing. While the hosting itself might be 5x more expensive, you can generally run a large scale app on serverless infra with 20% of the SRE/platform headcount, and for nearly every engineering company the savings in salary costs and focus on product instead of platform will pay for themself very quickly and become a huge asset in the long run.

[pxc]

From a skills perspective, the vendor lock-in still bothers me on a personal level.

What's interesting about learning to push the right buttons on one company's black box, especially when I know it's likely powered by or equivalent to familiar F/OSS?

[0xB31B1B]

It’s not about what is interesting; it’s about what is productive. Kubernetes is interesting but I would not launch a project in it at a scale smaller than say 20M USD/year hosting costs because you’ll probably be able to make a higher quality project in a faster time if you use hosted/3rd party solutions

[pxc]

An engineer's choice of where to work or what skills to develop is definitely (in part) about what is interesting.