look — i get why teams want ownership. people move faster when they can make their own calls instead of waiting on a platform group to bless every little thing.
but once every team has its own version of the same workflow, the org starts paying for it in support, onboarding, and weird edge-case fixes. where do people here draw the line between “let the team decide” and “no, this has to be standardized”?
The line for me is when a “team choice” turns into a second language you have to learn just to ship your first PR. Once onboarding docs start needing a translation layer (“on this team we do it this way”), you’re paying a tax forever.
I’m fine with teams picking their own stuff inside the box, but the box itself should be boring and consistent: how you build, test, deploy, name things, and where the logs/alerts live. Everything else can be flavor.
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