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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Unwind: Breaking the Psychology of Cloud Vendor Lock-in

Ruckus Voxi

Is familiarity bias trapping you in expensive cloud vendor lock-in? Stop overpaying hyperscalers. Learn how unwinding applications to core primitives restores your architectural freedom.

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#1 about 4 min

Understanding familiarity bias through a farmers market analogy

Comparing local farmer markets to cloud providers reveals how familiarity bias blinds buyers to better alternatives.

#2 about 3 min

Accepting high costs and vendor constraints in cloud markets

Organizations often ignore competitive alternatives and accept exorbitant egress fees due to clouded critical thinking.

#3 about 4 min

Navigating hyperscaler dependency and core cloud infrastructure primitives

Technology leaders struggle to adapt to alternative clouds that prioritize foundational primitives over proprietary knobs.

#4 about 5 min

Shifting from prescriptive guidance to descriptive cloud architectures

Moving past prescriptive, vendor-dictated designs empowers engineers to build solutions with objective agency.

#5 about 4 min

How the reticular activating system reinforces vendor tunnel vision

The brain's natural filtering mechanisms trap engineers in familiar ecosystems until frustration forces a reactive migration.

#6 about 3 min

Stripping application architectures down to fundamental bare bones

Mentally unwinding applications to their functional core prevents subjective alignment with attractive but unnecessary vendor services.

#7 about 5 min

Building global and portable edge networks with Macrometa

A portable design philosophy utilizing open source primitives allows companies to construct highly distributed edge architectures.

#8 about 2 min

Tuning simple architectures for open cloud optimization

Even simple applications benefit from boundary-free optimization that breaks the psychology of cloud vendor lock-in.

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Balancing the benefits and challenges of vendor lock-in

Leo Lindhorst · World Congress 2022

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Navigating tooling fragmentation and vendor lock-in risks

Nico Axtmann · World Congress 2022

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