This article is dangerous in romanticizing the “not invented here” culture at many big tech companies and seems rooted more in the 90s than present day.
The world of open source tooling and easily re-usable SAAS offerings means everyone has access to the best tools, whether you’re a small startup or a big company.
Anyone who longs for internal, corporate tooling baffles me when they can use things that actually have polish, user experience and likely better implementations under the hood.
Companies should spend their time/energy building things unique to their problem domain, not weak also-ran corporate tooling.
The world of open source tooling and easily re-usable SAAS offerings means everyone has access to the best tools, whether you’re a small startup or a big company.
Anyone who longs for internal, corporate tooling baffles me when they can use things that actually have polish, user experience and likely better implementations under the hood.
Companies should spend their time/energy building things unique to their problem domain, not weak also-ran corporate tooling.