Why We Stopped Letting Teams Build Their Own Pipelines
Consistency beats flexibility at scale. Early on, we let teams build their own pipelines. It felt empowering. It felt flexible. It felt fast. It did not scale. Flexibility Creates Variance When every team builds pipelines independently: conventions diverge checks differ deployments behave differently failure modes multiply That variance is invisible at first. It becomes painful later. Team A used Azure Pipelines. Team B used GitHub Actions. Team C used Jenkins because they inherited a project that already had it. All three were valid choices. ...