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> Thinking, you build it, you run it, will work in the long term This is basically the "hit-by-a-bus" scenario and it applies to pretty much anything in which
by mtberatwork 8y ago
> Thinking, you build it, you run it, will work in the long term
This is basically the "hit-by-a-bus" scenario and it applies to pretty much anything in which you have a single point of failure in terms of manpower, not just in-house software. e.g. What happens when the engineer who installed your open-source solutions leaves? Who is left to support updates, migrations, etc? The solution to this is of course is to staff correctly...so that you don't have a single engineer building out an entire code base or system that your company heavily relies on.
- spdionis 8y agoIn a way, after 3-4 years, there isn't much difference whether you have to update your self-hosted service, or the SaaS you're using is finally removing the functionality you rely on after having deprecated it 2 years earlier. The only difference is server resource management, which is not much effort if automated correctly, and security fixes which is not that much more.