Composable APIs vs. Point Solutions: Total Cost of Ownership for Content Processing

The Hidden Cost of "Best of Breed" You pick AWS Textract for document extraction because it has the deepest feature set. You pick Cloudinary for image transformation because it has the most CDN edge nodes. You use Puppeteer for PDF generation because it is free and you already know headless Chrome. You generate spreadsheets with a Node library because why pay for that? On paper, this looks like an optimized stack. Each tool is the best at its specific job. You have avoided vendor lock-in. Your a