[cgrealy]

I'm talking about the standard things that people do that are common across companies.

Absolutely make your USP special.

But logging? DB access? Deployment? Those are generally solved problems and unless you have a very good reason not to... "doing what everyone else does" is going to be a lot less pain in the long run.

[mbrodersen]

Yep there are many solutions to the same problems out there. So thinking is required to choose the solutions that works best in your specific situation. Taking into account your business, team, customers, runtime environment etc. etc. Simply cargo copying somebody else without understanding the pros/cons is what crappy devs do.