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A comic exploring the classic dilemma faced by development teams when deciding whether to build custom solutions internally or purchase existing third-party tools and services. The comic likely illustrates the common considerations, trade-offs, and decision-making process that engineers and managers encounter in this fundamental software development choice.

(comic) Build vs Buy

I once worked at a project where almost everything was external service. We still had a gainful job to integrate the stuff and boy devops maintenance and support was fun… all you could do was writing an email to the vendor.

Building custom solutions is how we all started.

A better answer for your boss might be “After we’ve developed in-house tools, we can choose when and how to monetize them ourselves.”
It helps to speak the other persons’ language.