Ask HN: What are some examples of cloud lock-in?

• dapr

  80 23,351 9.7 Go

  Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.

  

One thing that I've seen work is that if you absolutely require the ability to deploy on-prem then using something like OpenShift/Kubernetes as a primitive can work per the parent.

Even if you rely on streaming like PubSub or Kinesis, the trick is to write interfaces in the application tier that allow for using an on-prem primitive like Kafka and not depending too much on the implementation of that abstraction.

I've been on a platform team that built these primitives into the application layer, e.g. a blob storage interface to access any blob store whether it's on prem NFS, azure, etc. However I'm looking at newer projects like dapr [1] and have taken them for a spin in small projects. Such a project seems like a favorable way to add "platform services" to a non-trivial app while still maintaining a pubsub abstraction that allows for swapping out the physical backend.

[1] https://dapr.io/

• micro

  42 12,029 8.7 Go

  A Go service development platform (by micro)

  

Had similar goals. Started by writing Go interfaces for it with Go Micro - https://go-micro.dev then opted for the platform service model as you mentioned with Micro - https://micro.dev

I think whether it's Dapr, Micro or something else, the platform service model with well defined interfaces is the way to go. I don't think a lot of people get this yet so it's still going to be a few years before it takes off.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• go-micro

  23 21,438 6.5 Go

  A Go microservices framework

  

Had similar goals. Started by writing Go interfaces for it with Go Micro - https://go-micro.dev then opted for the platform service model as you mentioned with Micro - https://micro.dev

I think whether it's Dapr, Micro or something else, the platform service model with well defined interfaces is the way to go. I don't think a lot of people get this yet so it's still going to be a few years before it takes off.

• osxphotos

  96 1,727 9.4 Python

  Python app to work with pictures and associated metadata from Apple Photos on macOS. Also includes a package to provide programmatic access to the Photos library, pictures, and metadata.

In a similar vein, I am doing a migration from iCloud Photo Library from a completely self-hosted cloudless solution. Getting the photos out is easy enough, but there's no easy UI to export the albums and smart albums and tags etc. Was doing quite a bit of AppleScript programming before I discovered https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos

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