Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in

A lot of software architects expend time and energy trying to come up
with ways to avoid lock-in. Sadly many of these discussions miss important
elements of how lock-in works - it's certainly not a simple binary switch.
Gregor Hohpe, who's probably
spend more time in such meetings that he'd like to admit, has written what
I think will be an essential article on the topic. This first installment
looks at the different varieties of lock-in.

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