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To build, or to buy, that is the question

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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I'd Like to Know if You're Building Something That Isn't Unique to Your Use Case

Big companies often, especially when they'r own time crunch, will push for by because they want their engineers working on new stuff. But if you do, i would strongly encourage to always think through your options before making that decision. There's more to be a product than an just the engineering of it. Ther here's always more. They are always trade offs, right? What am i trading off? When is that threshold? Well, for me, i'm going to borrow a term from somt of the cloud industry - bishe says, as long as you have things that are considered an undifferentiated like commodity,. It just doesn't make sense to build them. John

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