Outsourcing and the commoditization of software

Chris Riley: That's an interesting point, and I'm going to be bold. I don't want to alienate an industry, but I think that these outsourced companies have hopefully embraced DevOps because they have to support their customers, as well as because they want to build applications faster and better.

That being said, I believe that technology is becoming such a core component of business these days that it's a huge mistake to outsource your application development. I just don't think it's something that companies should be doing. Having experienced something like that before, I know how it works and I know the negotiations that happen because you have to succumb to the development firm's limitations, skill sets, or whatever it is. Making changes and the complexity around that is difficult. I just don't think that any organization should consider outsourcing unless something is just not financially...