Lightning Talk: Progress Over Purity: Sovereignty That Actually Ships
summary
Argues that perfect sovereignty is impossible and prioritizing impact wins: built a migration for Volt Europa (35,000 members) that moves member identity off US infrastructure first, migrated transactional email before marketing, and hit practical barriers like an OVH cluster billed in Polish zloty with no easy export path. Recommends portable first (Postgres, containers, OpenTelemetry) or EU provider full switch, mandates a single observability backend so teams trust the move, and to close the tap on new proprietary services.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Progress over purity
- 2:27Purity trap in sovereignty
- 3:30Identify crown jewels first
- 5:17Closing the tap on new proprietary dependencies
- 6:44Sovereignty vs portability
- 7:46Keeping the lights on during migration
- 9:09Summary and call to action
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