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SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding
The pitch of modern SaaS is "don't reinvent the wheel." But every wheel you bolt on comes with some friction.
Developers are told "to focus on the product" and let SaaS vendors handle the rest, but integrating third-party services, whether it's auth, queuing, file storage, or image optimization, comes at a cost. Monitoring, logging, and alerting Wondering why something worked in your laptop but fails in production? Where your database, queue, image service, and storage all live within the same platform and speak the same language.
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