Kill It with Fire

Organizations end up with patchwork solutions because the tech community rewards explorers. Being among the first with tales of documenting, experimenting, or destroying a piece of technology builds an individual’s prestige. Pushing the boundaries of performance by adopting something new and innovative builds it even more so. Software engineers are incentivized to forego tried and true approaches in favor of new frontiers. Left to their own devices, software engineers will proliferate tools, ignoring feature overlaps for the sake of that one thing tool X does better than tool Y that is relevant only in that specific situation.