I admit I quickly searched my company directory to see if you work where I do :)
The article mentions 3 things engineers care about: Technology, Intellection and Stability. Perhaps your pain fits into the 3rd category (if extrapolate a little).
If so, ironically, the first 2 at scale is what causes the lack of the 3rd.
When you make wider roads, the traffic will get worse, not better. Perhaps it's similar technology organizations. It's almost inevitable.
Anecdotally Amazon figured this stuff out by mandating well defined organizational boundaries (kind of like solid white dividers on some section of the highway, eh?) and by making each team responsible for its own developer infrastructure. It seems wasteful at first, but maybe less so at scale. Maybe someone working there can confirm/deny whether this is the case.
The article mentions 3 things engineers care about: Technology, Intellection and Stability. Perhaps your pain fits into the 3rd category (if extrapolate a little).
If so, ironically, the first 2 at scale is what causes the lack of the 3rd.
When you make wider roads, the traffic will get worse, not better. Perhaps it's similar technology organizations. It's almost inevitable.
Anecdotally Amazon figured this stuff out by mandating well defined organizational boundaries (kind of like solid white dividers on some section of the highway, eh?) and by making each team responsible for its own developer infrastructure. It seems wasteful at first, but maybe less so at scale. Maybe someone working there can confirm/deny whether this is the case.