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> The costs of integrating a bought tool are also overlooked in most of these conversations. External tools are marketed well but don’t always deliver on their
by fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
> The costs of integrating a bought tool are also overlooked in most of these conversations. External tools are marketed well but don’t always deliver on their promises of being easy to use or setup.
Exactly, for a lot of problem domains, the cost of integrating a third party solution is nearly equal to the cost of writing from scratch, because the hard part isn’t the problem space but the environment-specific configuration.
- lumost 7y agoIt's also difficult to grow and maintain a high performing engineering team centered around integrating 3rd party products. You can't spend 2 years on vendor negotiations and integrations and then expect to build the next great thing for your business.