Another good question to always ask is "If I'm getting X from Y, what do I do if Y stops providing X the way I need it?" An example might be analytics. It's go

Another good question to always ask is "If I'm getting X from Y, what do I do if Y stops providing X the way I need it?" An example might be analytics. It's good to know that you can drop in a third-party library and just go, but you need to make sure to look at how you can move your data off of that platform and use it yourself. You also need to consider how much of a time investment switching off of Y would be. How much effort will rolling your own be? How much effort will rolling your own after using Y? How hard will it be to swap Y out for Z? Another classic case here is web hosting. I use GCP. I've used AWS. I really don't want to, but if Google or Amazon kicked me off/out/raised the prices too much, I'll host from my own hardware, and go to Fry's if I need to get more hardware than I have. I really don't want to, but I will.