Best-of-breed or Integrated Solution?

Another common question when deciding on tooling is whether to choose the best-of-breed solution for each task a team needs, or select a more integrated solution. For many organizations, this choice depends on whether they have very specific needs that only one vendor can fulfill, existing tools that need to be integrated, or how organizational decisions are made. For example, top-down decision-making tends to prefer integrated solutions, and bottom-up decisions tend toward picking best-of-breed tools. With as many options as there are today, it’s easy to fill up your “DevOps cart” with a number of tools, deploy them, and then expect everything to work. Consider a scenario where you leverage Atlassian JIRA ...

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