personally i believe you should try to avoid as many services as possible. Why do you want to rely on a service? What if the service says "bye bye", you'd be like.. ok i guess our software doesnt work anymore.. RIP. I also feel like many developers use services to hide the fact they just suck at solving certain problems. E.g. we need to deploy.. ok we need this 3rd party service that will deploy for us, we will give them access to all our servers and therefore all data and that's absolutely not weird, + you'll have to read their docs for a few hours to know how it works... ok.. how about i write a simple deploy script in 5 minutes? "NO WTF! Are u insane??? Everything will crash and burn unless we use this service". :: So that's basically how my conversations go with these other devs. Really annoying, i just gave up on them, i just let them do what they want, you cant change their mind.