Day 94
Thinking about the war in Ukraine reminded me of the longest I'd ever been away from Damian. It was in November of 2019 when I spent 3 weeks in Kyiv, Ukraine. I went there for work. During the summer of 2019, the executive leadership of my company, ETI Software Solutions, made the decision to do a hard pivot in terms of our product strategy. Since the company's inception (1992), ETI has always sold products that were created (read: coded) in-house by our software engineers. While we might embed within our application some 3rd party software, we did this only in places where most software application companies do the same: operating systems (OS) and databases (DB). There are plenty of each available that are either good or very good at what they do. Given the highly specialized nature of operating systems and databases, it's almost always worth it to simply license and use an existing solution rather than code your own. These two exceptions notwithstanding, the rest of t...