[dalyons]

imo you've just traded one set of centralized costs (developing tools, security practices that work for all and educating people) for a distributed set of costs with everyone managing their own clusters and duplicating all this work. You've just pushed the cost onto other teams - which can be a fine approach for reducing the central teams stress, but is net more costly to the business. EDIT: Im not saying its necessarily a bad choice, just much more expensive.

[natbobc]

It’s all swings and roundabouts has been since the broad adoption of computers. I expect in a few years time when everyone’s forgotten the pain points that drove them to decentralize there’ll be a big move to centralize again. Someone will get a gold star for coming up with the idea and being able to demonstrate the “cost savings”. Of course it’ll completely ignore the general disruption to all of the product teams as they adapt to the new world order but what’s a company without a little busy work.