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Avoiding In-House Development Tools Now may pay off later, says Ed Gray. The best performing DevOps teams avoid using proprietary tools when possible. Forrester Research found 20% of respondents relied on manually hard-coding custom integrations between tools and toolchains. Your custom software will still run on ever-changing technology platforms and interact with external software in ways that will require refactoring or patching anyway. The technical debt of non-consumer facing software will almost always increase over time.