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When is "tooling" worth buying? Perhaps it's a reflection of the kind of person that I am, but I would always rather build my pipeline internally rather than ou
by timClicks 6y ago
When is "tooling" worth buying? Perhaps it's a reflection of the kind of person that I am, but I would always rather build my pipeline internally rather than outsource it. That pipeline will probably become part of the critical path.
- knodi123 6y ago> Perhaps it's a reflection of the kind of person that I am Probably. Lots of companies just want the shortest path from here to profitability. If the cost/benefit equations justify it, then eventually they can justify the outlay of building their own tooling to replace outsourced pieces a bit at a time. I'm thinking of things like AWS Lambda. Once, I built a slim version that was enough to support my own company's use case. I was told "that's good. save the git repo. one day it may be worth it to add the redundancy and scaling we already get from aws. until then, there's more profitable things for you to be working on."
- anonytrary 6y ago> until then, there's more profitable things for you to be working on. Sorry, but this gave me a slight chuckle. I think I can empathize I guess, but found your wording hilariously blunt.