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So it makes it interesting that you can either buy service, which seems expensive according to his experience, or spend engineering time (salary money) to build

So it makes it interesting that you can either buy service, which seems expensive according to his experience, or spend engineering time (salary money) to build it once and pay almost nothing to keep it online. I think a lot of us would build it just for the experience, but many shops have a habit of buying things that are not their core competency.

tatersolid 7y ago
> or spend engineering time (salary money) to build it once and pay almost nothing to keep it online Every time an engineer says this, somewhere a puppy dies. Especially with an email service, keeping up with the spammers, scammers, blacklists, AV false positives, delivery failures at large companies, etc. cost far more per year than building the thing. Operations is never free.