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I've been surprised to still recently find software development agencies using their own proprietary content management systems and frameworks.<\/p>

With so many available open source options, like Drupal and Symfony, why would people write their own?<\/p>

Why spend the time and effort to build basic functionality like user registration and login when existing tools already solve that problem?<\/p>

Why ignore the thousands of open source modules, themes, plugins, packages and libraries that are available?<\/p>

Instead, leverage the tools that already exist and focus on solving domain-specific issues and writing code that's genuinely specific to the project.<\/p>

Then you can contribute some of the saved time back to the project and make it better for yourself and others in the future and ready for the next project.<\/p>", "format": "basic_html", "processed": "

I've been surprised to still recently find software development agencies using their own proprietary content management systems and frameworks.<\/p>

With so many available open source options, like Drupal and Symfony, why would people write their own?<\/p>

Why spend the time and effort to build basic functionality like user registration and login when existing tools already solve that problem?<\/p>

Why ignore the thousands of open source modules, themes, plugins, packages and libraries that are available?<\/p>

Instead, leverage the tools that already exist and focus on solving domain-specific issues and writing code that's genuinely specific to the project.<\/p>

Then you can contribute some of the saved time back to the project and make it better for yourself and others in the future and ready for the next project.<\/p>", "summary": "" } ] }