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by raverbashing 992 days ago
> Initially, we thought leveraging third-party software would help us move faster and focus on our core offering.

> What we found, instead, was every additional partner had the potential to break big, important parts of our stack.

Sounds like a, literally, very expensive lesson to learn

And the other side of this is also worrying, I wouldn't put it past Braid being one of the biggest customers of this 3rd party, (unless it's a big one like AWS) and then you shoot yourself in the foot with a non-planned deprecation making your customers migrate.