[dismantlethesun]

I started out agreeing with your sentiment, then found myself disagreeing with the premise behind it.

Yes, a lot of companies are founded around a single product or family of products. They can afford to use a building block that isn't re-usable across different projects. They're not making things for public consumption, or have multiple very divergent codebases.

But these aren't small web shops, and people building blogs. In the DC area at least, the above describes every midsized company ( midsized as in > $1 monthly revenue < $50 million monthly revenue). These guys are makers of the software that runs in doctors offices, hotels, non-profits, political organizations, and government contractors.

They're already bigger than most SasS companies in SV, can ever expect to be.

[andybak]

I oversimplified to make a point. If I could rephrase it in more general terms it would be something like "people in web development are taking engineering advice from people who are solving completely different problems" or maybe "best practice in web development is being framed by the atypical"