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Because like every service-oriented offering, each platform differentiates as hard as it can to lock you in to their way of doing things.

Things largely look the same on the surface; this takes the most effect at the implementation-detail level, where adjusting and countercorrecting down the track is fiddly and uses an adrenally-draining level of attention span - right when you're at the point where you're scaling and you no longer have the time to deal with implementation detail level stuff.

You're on <platform> and you're doing things their way and pivoting the architecture will only be prioritised if the alternative would be bankruptcy.



When you're starting out, you just need a server to run your application and a database.

It literally doesn't matter what service you're using at that point.

I don't see how you need to be "doing things their way" when that's all you have.




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