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Code maintainability, and the joy of outsourcing

Sum­mary
Accord­ing to com­mon wis­dom, the best code is devel­oped in-house. I am begin­ning to believe this is only true when the code must be tightly cou­pled, or there are real­is­tic secu­rity con­cerns. These sce­nar­ios are less com­mon than man­agers like to believe.
For run-of-the-mill devel­op­ment projects, out­sourc­ing might have advan­tages above-and-beyond cost sav­ings. If your code effort