Comment by _pdp_
4 days ago
Our company started migrating our tech stack from USA to EU. We are about 90% there with a few small dependencies that could be resolved but we have not yet tackled.
4 days ago
Our company started migrating our tech stack from USA to EU. We are about 90% there with a few small dependencies that could be resolved but we have not yet tackled.
Could you summarize the easy and hard aspects? Have you had any unexpected benefits or downsides?
For me:
- SES was a big one. There was no affordable alternative at my (not big, not small) scale.
- I'm still waning myself personally of GMail. That dependency took decades to build and it will take years for all ties to sever.
What is the difficulty in getting away from gmail?
I did it a few years ago and I simply signed up for Fastmail and had gmail forward all email there. It forwards to a specific e-mail address so I can see if there are still people/companies that use the old email address. The painful part was going through all my accounts to update the e-mail, but you can do it in stages if you follow the above.
Maybe this comment downthread helps for the email problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489711
Have you checked out zeptomail by zoho? Not as low cost, but getting close. More basics build in.
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Including EU sponsored programming languages and OSes?
This is something I think it is a blind spot we have and not big answer, because even if we take into account FOSS, ISO and ECMA languages, the biggest sponsors for those toolchains are US companies.
It will take decades to go back to the cold war days, of hardware, programming languages and OSes with European origin.
> EU sponsored programming languages
Those really don't matter.
> OSes
If you're talking about "US sponsoring" of Linux distros, then that doesn't matter either. If you mean Android and iOS, then you're right.
There's a super simple heuristic here. Does China care? If not, it doesn't matter. China doesn't care about adopting a Chinese-made programming language instead of Python or Typescript or Rust, meaning control over that isn't important. They do care about OS, which is why they put effort into increasing market share of phones with no American OS.
Actually it matters, that is Huawei came up with ArkTS for HarmonyNEXT.
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What are some of the biggest EU alternatives for US big tech?
When I Google this I find a lot of options, but not sure which are actually mature tech companies vs start-up hopefuls
IMHO there are not that many and this is a good thing. You can build them.