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by re-thc 797 days ago
> I would have thought the risks from 3rd party production dependencies would make devs do all in their power to minimize them.

Tell that to any developer (not just web) that outsources everything these days e.g. authentication, storage, analytics, database, etc - you name it.

They think it's less risk (and this includes managers and directors in larger companies). Apparently in-house would take forever, cost more and be unable to maintain anything these days.

I don't get it either but it's the current train of thought / trend and is not tied to individual developers.