[lmeyerov]

Right -- this is about commodity stuff. Agreed, asking a vendor to own your non-commodity bits means not owning your core speciality, which adds even higher levels of risks.

A nice thing about vendor-shaped holes in commodity areas is the holes are clear and plenty of vendors happy to quickly fill in. Comparing that to changing some internal project that gets its tendrils into who knows where with who knows what servers & services is night & day. I much rather figure out a Hubspot-to-Wordpress-and-Marketo migration or Zenefits-to-Gusto migration than some weird internal Elixir, Java, & InfluxDB Zeit blog spread over a bunch of AWS services that were primarily developed by two microservices devs who had both left the company to their next great thing over a year ago.