> Where as with a customized "elegant" meta-programming DRY NIH solution unique to ThisCorp.
In this specific case, I wouldn't recommend that either. e.g. there are plenty of products in the API gateway space that do that thing well. e.g. NGINX, Kong, Istio, Apigee etc.
They're not "unique to ThisCorp" but neither are they well-known to many Ruby / Node / Java / C# coders. It's a separate, specialised knowledge.
I think that's the "relatively unskilled labor" part: i.e. "yes, there are specialised tools that are excellent at solving this problem .... but we don't know them"
In this specific case, I wouldn't recommend that either. e.g. there are plenty of products in the API gateway space that do that thing well. e.g. NGINX, Kong, Istio, Apigee etc.
They're not "unique to ThisCorp" but neither are they well-known to many Ruby / Node / Java / C# coders. It's a separate, specialised knowledge.
I think that's the "relatively unskilled labor" part: i.e. "yes, there are specialised tools that are excellent at solving this problem .... but we don't know them"