# Trade-offs of Build vs Buy for Start-ups

DevFeed: [Trade-offs of Build vs Buy for Start-ups](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/trade-offs-of-build-vs-buy-for-start-ups-29596.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/build-vs-buy/>)

Author: travis@goteleport.com (Travis Gary)

Published: 2021-10-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Software as a service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saas.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/implementation.md>)

Tags: [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines the trade-offs between building software in-house and buying it from vendors. It argues that buying can preserve engineering time for core systems and experimentation, while reducing the ongoing scalability, security, compliance, and maintenance burdens of internally built tools. It also outlines benefits, drawbacks, security concerns, and criteria for deciding when to build in-house.

## Source excerpt

As our company has been growing quickly, we've faced the build-vs-buy question numerous times. In this blog post we're sharing our rationale for making these decisions.