Honestly the biggest competitive advantage isn't in the thing you're building in-house, it's just the fact that you can debug it 10x faster than your competition.
I never understood this until I saw some dysfunctional enterprise companies. I've seen entire teams spend 3 months doing fuck all because they can't get a local dev environment or build pipeline to work.
If you only have Postgres, and you're weighing up whether to add a second dependency instead of installing a Postgres plugin or writing 50 lines of code, of course it's going to seem like an obvious choice ("I can get this working right now instead of spending a day or two on it! Wow!").
If you make a habit of making those decisions again and again, then your project is going to spiral out of control before you even realise it.
I never understood this until I saw some dysfunctional enterprise companies. I've seen entire teams spend 3 months doing fuck all because they can't get a local dev environment or build pipeline to work.
If you only have Postgres, and you're weighing up whether to add a second dependency instead of installing a Postgres plugin or writing 50 lines of code, of course it's going to seem like an obvious choice ("I can get this working right now instead of spending a day or two on it! Wow!").
If you make a habit of making those decisions again and again, then your project is going to spiral out of control before you even realise it.