Valid points in the article and in many of the comments here. BUT: taken to the extreme, "yes, reinvent the wheel!" quickly becomes NIH ("not invented here") syndrome, which I've seen one too many times in enterprise stacks, as I'm sure plenty of you folks have too. We don't need no stinkin' wheels from the OUTSIDE!

I think every codebase needs a healthy and pragmatic balance of "this particular wheel we can and should build ourselves, and it'll work better (for us at least!) than any other wheels out there" vs "there is a standard wheel for this, 10 million other horse-and-carriages out there use the same wheel, it's not worth us using a non-standard wheel for this thing".