Small SaaS Teams: Which Backend Dependency Did You Remove, and Why?

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Which backend dependency did your small SaaS team remove after discovering that it added more operating work than value?

Rather than recommending a complete tech stack, this thread asks for retrospective simplification decisions.

• What problem was the dependency originally meant to solve?
• What maintenance, deployment or debugging burden emerged?
• What replaced it, if anything?
• Which capability or trade-off did you accept by removing it?

Include team size and workload context where useful. A tool that was unnecessary for one team can still be appropriate for another. Please distinguish measured outcomes from expectations.

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