Locked In or Locked Out? Choosing Vendor Solutions for Long-Term Stability
Picture this: you’re at a tech buffet, piling proprietary sauce onto your infrastructure plate. It tastes great… until you realize you’ve glued your fork to the vendor’s hand. That’s vendor lock-in – the digital equivalent of wearing someone else’s shoes home after a party. You can walk, but every step feels awkwardly expensive. Let’s dissect how to avoid becoming a prisoner of your tech stack while keeping systems stable enough to survive a zombie apocalypse....