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I've helped many companies ship better software faster. One negative trend I've observed at many of these is what's termed the "not invented here" (NIH) syndrome. That is, they tend to build or self-manage software rather than let another company provide it as a paid service. I've observed this with its attitude toward cloud-managed services, like Lambda or S3: ("We should stick to Kubernetes because we can easily port this to other cloud platforms if necessary."), with database clusters ("Seriously, how hard is it to run MongoDB?"), and with source control ("We can run GitLab ourselves and keep things secure"). I take a different approach - one aligned with the concept of "the division of labor" that lets specialized companies trade efficient services with one another. By Division of Labor, I mean "the separation of the tasks in any economic system or organization so that participants may specialize." (Wikipedia). It's the specialization that provides the value. Those specialists then