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by ripped_britches 703 days ago
100%. Very few times are these systems built as robustly as external folks who earn a profit on building robustness. Best example of course being Stripe. But I see this from everything from visual snapshot testing tools to custom CI workflows. The good thing is you can always rely on competitive market dynamics to price the off the shelf solution down to a reasonable margin above maintenance costs.