Lock-in, honestly assessed
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In this lesson
assess lock-in as a cost to compare, not a fear to obey.
Planned topics
- Lock-in comes in kinds: data format, API, skills, contracts, and operating tooling.
- Estimate the exit cost: what would it take, in time and money, to move in a year?
- Avoiding lock-in has its own price: lowest-common-denominator designs, extra abstraction, slower delivery.
- Accept lock-in knowingly where the benefit is high and the exit is affordable; keep data portable.
- Record the exit consideration in the decision.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
a small table per component: lock-in kind, benefit gained, rough exit effort (days, weeks, months), mitigation.
Check your understanding
Does avoiding all lock-in make a design better?
Show answer
No; it trades delivery speed for an option you may never use.
Practice
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