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> Another benefit of running small, cross-functional teams. It's a lot more difficult for bloat to become overwhelming when teams have strong autonomy over their own decisions and stacks

I’ve found the opposite to be true unless autonomy is paired with accountability. Ultimately the people making decisions need to pay the costs for their choices and I’ve seen that be especially bad where someone had the autonomy to spin up a ton of resources which someone else had to pay for. This can be especially bad if that was resume-driven development where they were playing cloud service bingo trying to list experience with things they really couldn’t have justified based on the application’s actual usage.