> Third-Party Vendor Risks This is one of the biggest pain points we've had. We used to have a stack that utilized a lot of 3rd party frameworks and other tool

> Third-Party Vendor Risks This is one of the biggest pain points we've had. We used to have a stack that utilized a lot of 3rd party frameworks and other tools which required a very lengthy audit phase each year. The first time we went through it, I had to spend a solid month doing nothing but simply understanding what regs were even applicable to us. Audits were so painful that we were willing to forego 100% of our principles and dive straight into the Microsoft/Azure kool-aid factory. Today, we have just the one vendor. It is genuinely a better existence all around. I take a lot of heat for being a MS protagonist but I simply don't care anymore. I know what works for us, and what works our our customers. If you intend to sell software to US financial institutions and you simultaneously want to play games in traffic with highly-principled technology stacks, you should not be surprised when you wind up getting lapped by someone like us.