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It’s interesting that the wisdoms of “buy, don’t build” and “NiH” etc. seem to be shifting in general. I think a lot of people have been realizing through the
by dgb23 3y ago
It’s interesting that the wisdoms of “buy, don’t build” and “NiH” etc. seem to be shifting in general.
I think a lot of people have been realizing through the pain of maintenance that dependencies are liabilities and that general, open source solutions with a bit of plumbing are often the lesser evil in that regard.
Given my anecdotal experience it seems to be true in the small, and I can imagine how this problem is even more pronounced in the large.
- bongobingo1 3y agoDon't clone, contribute!
- re-thc 3y ago> It’s interesting that the wisdoms of “buy, don’t build” and “NiH” etc. seem to be shifting in general. I don't know how these can ever be a "wisdom". It's often taken out of context and most people don't even understand how or where it should applied. If you blindly apply anything it's never a wisdom. Something like "buy, don't build" earn companies $$$ and there is likely heavy influence from those trying to profit from it more than a general wisdom.
- hobs 3y agoAnd then it will slowly come back to "my home grown solutions don't scale and I pay too many people to maintain all my infra, there's gotta be a better way!" Or more simply, the urge to centralize and then decentralize has been repeated many times already in the computer industry, sometimes they are legitimate reasons, but often its grass is greener type of thinking which rules many engineering cultures.