@GergelyOrosz: "We would never be comfortable to give a 3rd party tool access to our database" - from a dev at a mid-sized company tha…
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A developer at a mid-sized company built their own coding harness, used in 70%+ of PRs, because they were uncomfortable giving a third-party tool database access, reflecting a trend of companies keeping code and data IP in-house.
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“We would never be comfortable to give a 3rd party tool access to our database”
- from a dev at a mid-sized company that built its own coding harness that is used by 70%+ of all PRs
They would not let any vendor run this kind of infra, so they brought it in-house. They are super happy they did this
I sense this will be the norm for companies above the “small” size. Code + data is the IP of a company. Why would you hand it over to a third party?
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