[simonw]

Coincidentally, Charity Majors wrote one of my favorite essays about that too: https://charity.wtf/2018/12/02/software-sprawl-the-golden-pa...

> Assemble a small council of trusted senior engineers.

> Task them with creating a recommended list of default components for developers to use when building out new services. This will be your Golden Path, the path of convergence (and the path of least resistance).

> Tell all your engineers that going forward, the Golden Path will be fully supported by the org. Upgrades, patches, security fixes; backups, monitoring, build pipeline; deploy tooling, artifact versioning, development environment, even tier 1 on call support. Pave the path with gold. Nobody HAS to use these components … but if they don’t, they’re on their own. They will have to support it themselves.