On the future of cloud services and BYOC — Jack Vanlightly

Logging, one of the three pillars of observability, can become very expensive with complex applications tying together many microservices due to *persistent* storage costs.

Version lock-in : Besides being locked into a product, you may even be locked into a specific version. Version upgrades can be costly if they break existing customizations and extensions you have built (SAP, anyone?). Other version upgrades essentially require you to rewrite your application - AngularJS vs. Angular 2 comes to mind. To make matters

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A service has constant administration costs which are paid by the service provider.

A library instead moves these costs to the users of the library.

For any developer with limited resources,

this means a library (where viable) can provide the same functionality to the user,

at a lower cost to the developer than a service.

By library, I mean any software... See more