Is vendor lock really an issue that needs to be solved? I am wondering if one had to ever switch vendors in practice.
It sounds like over optimization to something that might not even be in the requirements. I remember a few years ago when infrastructures were designed to be able to handle 1m+ requests per second long before market validation. Keep it simple and focus on getting your app to the market.
> Is vendor lock really an issue that needs to be solved?
I don't think so, not at this point. Workloads are more portable today than they ever were, as long as you're not using XaaS from your cloud provider.
Compute has become entirely commoditized. I think in the next 10 years or so, with lower power/instruction and ubiquitous 1G internet links, it will become cheap enough to start running workloads in-house again.
