The third wave of open source migration
If you work for a big engineering organization you will find yourself questioning things that are being built a lot. Open Source alternatives often have higher quality and better support, yet engineering organizations opt to build their own. You might wonder why? It's because growth is the name of the game. Any engineering leader wants bigger and bigger organization under her/him so what they do is they green light projects that mostly don't make sense but they can pretty much lie about how essential it is to build in house to the board/CEO.<p>When winter comes, those projects don't make sense anymore because cost cutting measures are in mandate. The same leader might even make the case for the Open Source alternative.<p>I've seen this enough times to know it is a pattern in our industry.