BRX Pro Tip: What’s in Your Tech Stack?
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, I don’t know that this was a question people asked 20, maybe even 10 years ago, but it’s an important question for any firm I would think these days, certainly professional services firms, and that’s what’s in your tech stack.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:22] Your tech stack is growing and growing, and it’s one of those things that you have to keep an eye on, and you have to audit those kind of subscriptions at least once a year, because the tech stack kind of just takes on a life of its own. I just saw recently that most businesses have over 20 vendors in their tech stack. And if you have 20 vendors in your tech stack, I guarantee you there’s some duplication that some of those have services that kind of spill over to other service providers, vendors in that area.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:58] So, you have to kind of get a handle on how many are you actually using. Do you even know? Can you get rid of some of them? Are there better answers nowadays for some of them? These are things that you may not even understand how they’re all playing together. There might be a security risk to your company because they all might not be playing nicely together. They could be sabotaging your website because you’re using them incorrectly.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:25] So, really go through your tech stack and decide what you should keep and what you can get rid of. And if you do this in your business, bonus tip is do that same audit with your personal life. You know, how many subscriptions do you have in your personal life? Do you really need Spotify and SiriusXM? You know, you can get rid of a bunch of subscriptions in your personal life, too, if you do this same exercise.
