Every development team must decide which components to build in-house and which to offload to a 3rd party vendor. This decision is often difficult and hotly debated. After all, most developers chose this career in order to build cool things! Choosing to relinquish that control to buy a solution can seem contrary to their raison d’etre. But developers and their managers are also acutely aware that their time is their single greatest asset. As every company becomes a technology company, leaders are challenged with a scarcity of developer capital, and inefficient usage of their developers. In a recent study conducted by Stripe, C-level executives cite bringing products to market faster, increasing sales, and differentiating products / services vs. competitors as the top 3 areas where developers can have an impact. Of those polled, 96% agree that increasing the productivity of its developers is a high to medium priority. Historically.