> 'industry standard best practices' win over a well designed bespoke solution every time, developers are just expected to write a little glue at most
Sometimes for good reason. "Well designed bespoke solutions" often turn out to be badly designed reinventions of the wheel. Industry standard best practices sometimes prevent problems that you yet know you will run into.
And sometimes they just are massively overdesigned overkill. There is a real art to knowing which is which.
> There is a real art to knowing which is which.
Absolutely, but that “art” is really important, and also, fairly rare.
Many folks just jam in any dependency that is a first hit in a search, with more than 50 GH stars, and a shiny Web site.
One “red flag” phrase that I’ve learned is “That’s a solved problem!”. When I hear that, I know I should be skeptical of the prescribed “solution.”
That said, there’s stuff that definitely should be delegated to better-qualified folks. One example, that I was just working on[0], is Webauthn stuff.
[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/addendum-a-server-setup/