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by bluefirebrand 354 days ago
That's pretty cool. I would expect most of that sort of company to be buying off the shelf products these days but I guess some still roll their own

Thank you for the advice, I really appreciate that you took the time to do that. Very kind of you

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Once you hit scale there are very few off the shelf solutions. Every major application is going to have some degree of customization involved.

Personally, I maintain a legacy codebase of a propietary application running several distribution centers. New feature requests, bug fixes, integrations, ever-changing business requirements mean its worth having staff on payroll to do it, as the contractor costs to do so are exorbitant.