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I worked for a big finance conglomerate as a contractor and were were using an Appian service for doing authentication... We didn't really need it but it was pa

I worked for a big finance conglomerate as a contractor and were were using an Appian service for doing authentication... We didn't really need it but it was part of the project requirements. It seems like one of these companies that makes money by latching themselves onto the systems of large, inefficient corporations that don't trust their own engineers to do the work (even though they are capable). At that company we were also forced to use Amazon Lambda for a lot of API work; it slowed us down a lot but the business demanded it.

naravara 9y ago
>It seems like one of these companies that makes money by latching themselves onto the systems of large, inefficient corporations that don't trust their own engineers to do the work (even though they are capable). Opportunity costs are a thing. Even if their engineers are capable and willing, it may not be the most productive use of their time. Also, having worked for and consulted for many large, inefficient corporations outside the technology sector, Homemade software solutions have almost always been complete trash. The UX is generally extremely frustrating and they’re buggy as hell. These things are always done as a side-project and don’t have the kinds of resources or project management expertise applied to them to get them done properly. Whether that’s engineerings’ fault or managements’ fault is immaterial as the result is always the same. Why not send the software work outside and let your company focus on what your company is good at?