Only customize where you are unusual

1 · Evan Hahn · Sept. 6, 2015, 5 a.m.
In an article about GitHub's tech stack: We don't need to reinvent the wheel, we don't need to write our own databases, we don't need to start writing our own frameworks—because they're all in domains that are usual. It's a website, it's web hosting. In the domains that are unusual, we fully embrace the need to write custom applications or build bespoke apps for that. ...