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How to Avoid Vendor Lock In

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For example, Akamai introduced ASI in 2005, which became the standard for building new websites. Another fact is that most companies rely on IaC tools like Terraform, Pulumi to manage their CDN infrastructure. Akamai tried to convince many users to use this new framework.

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How to Avoid Vendor Lock In

IO River

So, when businesses integrate these exclusive features into their applications, they become tied to the vendor, as replicating these features in another CDN is impossible.‍For example, Akamai introduced ASI in 2005, which became the standard for building new websites. Akamai tried to convince many users to use this new framework.

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