I think these blogposts create a false narrative. It should start by acknowledging that in 99% of cases any outsourced systems' stability will be better than an

I think these blogposts create a false narrative. It should start by acknowledging that in 99% of cases any outsourced systems' stability will be better than anything in-house. Yes there are some vendors that don't do a good job. I heard many people complaining about Layer for instance. But most vendors, AWS, Stripe, Algolia, Stream, can invest more time and effort in stability than you can feasible do for an in-house solution. This is not surprising, if you do something for thousands of customers you can dedicate more effort to Q&A, Docs, maintenance, monitoring, firefighting etc. For every story of someone having vendor issues there are dozens for things going to shit with in-house code. There have been times in the past when I was annoyed with AWS stability issues. We've all been there. But I also know that AWS is more stable than anything I could feasible build in-house.