[stonemetal12]

As far as I can tell how well standardization works depends on "how close to the humans" it is.

HTTP; TCP; json; xml: all standardize pretty well. Want to standardize your micro services on nginx with data in json? It will work swimmingly and save time because it is one less decision to be made, and overtime everyone will become familiar with how nginx is setup. Standardizing on what json libs to use so that everyone can dig into the json marshalling code without a lot of head scratching would be another big win.

Trying to standardize people never works because they want to do things their own way and view whatever standard you try to impose as wrong.

[Splizard]

So the answer is, standardize communication/protocols but leave procedure to the free market?