Comment by Rohit Kothari on "What are you working on, and what do you want to do?"

Hi All! This is my first ever response on devmag. I am currently working as a Cloud Software Engineer, developing cloud native apps. I am seeing this huge trend of all of AWS services being integrated together to make great microservices. I am a passionate learner and have recently started my career in software. I really want to solve some simple problems using the latest technologies such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway, etc. Anyone doing any interesting stuff in this space? I am really looking forward to start contributing to open source. Don't know yet where would I start this journey, however just wanted to start by getting to know cool people here. So, hello everyone! :)

Awesome! I recently worked on a school project where my team worked on something similar. We started developing an API abstraction layer on top of various cloud providers (currently AWS and Google Cloud). It was focussed on solving vendor lock-in in terms of using cloud APIs for app development. So, instead of using AWS or Google's APIs, a developer would use our API service that could be easily migrated between the cloud providers with a simple configuration.

Not sure if this is the best way to solve cloud vendor lock-in for developers, but that's how I got to learn about AWS, Google Cloud, and many architectural points. Due to time constraints of school project, we could not cover all services of AWS and Google Cloud, however we designed the entire structure modular so we could easily add new service layer or an entirely new cloud provider.

Glad to meet you here. :)

I'm an AWS n00b, but heavily invested in Google's cloud - my recent focus has become making software that's cloud/server-agnostic; so in other words, I don't want any kind of lock-in if I deploy on Google or AWS and migrating should be simple.

I have one app which is using almost every Google API you can think of running on Google App Engine, if I want to migrate this app to another cloud provider, I'll need to rewrite the app and if Google decides to shut down any of the APIs I'm using, I'm toast. Same applies to AWS.

So even though those APIs are convenient, I avoid them as far as possible unless I build a generic interface on top of those APIs that I can easily swing to another cloud provider if I need to.

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