Parler

Sun Jan 10 17:36:37 UTC 2021

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:43 AM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins?

Hi Mike,

While there's certainly an opportunity to get political, there are
some obviously apolitical issues worth discussing here as well.

First, this would appear to be an illustration of the single-vendor
problem. You don't have a credible continuity of operations plan if a
termination by a single vendor can take you and keep you offline. It's
the single point of failure that otherwise intelligent system
architects fail to consider and address. But more than that, cloud
providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching
impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a
cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to
facilitate cross-platform construction?

Second, Amazon strongly encourages customers to build use of its
proprietary services and APIs into the core of the customer's product.
That's quite devastating when there's a need to change vendors.
Parler's CEO described Amazon's action as requiring them to "rebuild
from scratch," so I wonder just how tightly tied to such Amazon APIs
they actually are. And if there isn't a lesson there for the rest of
us.

These two issues, at least, are technical in nature and on topic for
this forum. You may choose not to discuss them if they don't interest
you, of course.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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