@ojrask @sarah_edo @benbyford @joeflateau A specialised company whose entire business depends on the quality of their [database|auth|search|payments] service is likely to have more rigorous practices, domain expertise, disaster recover, economies of scale, resources... than the teams I'd put together in-house for those.
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