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How One CTO Uses Internal Platforms to Kill the Build vs Buy Trap
Every engineering leader eventually faces the build-versus-buy decision. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack a concrete case: a mid-stage fintech CTO who set up a lightweight internal platform team that turned the build-versus-buy question on its head. Instead of choosing between buying an off-the-shelf vendor product or building a custom solution from scratch, the team built a reusable internal component that served three different product teams. By measuring cycle time and developer satisfaction before and after, they found a 40% reduction in time-to-ship for new features and a 30-point…
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