At what point using one provider for everything becomes vendor lock in?
I wanna start off directly by saying that there's an obvious advantage to using one company for several parts of your stack. You have fewer integrations to build, fewer vendor relationships to manage and generally one place to go when something breaks especially when you're still trying to get a product launched that simplicity can be pretty valuable. What I think worries me is what happens later when the business grows and you decide one part of that provider's offering no longer works for you. If several important parts of your product are built around the same company then replacing just one of them could potentially turn into a much bigger migration. Going completely modular from day one doesn't seem ideal either because then you're accepting a lot of extra complexity just to preserve flexibility you might never need. For entrepreneurs who've dealt with this how do you decide how much vendor dependence is reasonable and at what point does the convenience of an all in one provider start becoming lock in you'd rather avoid?