You know how a car suddenly breaking on a highway, it can cause major congestion miles behind? And the driver will never know Similarly, when BigCo publishes an engineering blog "Why we adopted Y:" these posts can wreck havoc at smaller companies. They will never know though!

I’ve also seen the “BigCo switches from X to Y” and then later “BigCo switches back to X” 😆

And to make matters worst: these individual tech articles at BigCo are rarely part of a specific strategy. It's just Dave who's done a little migration project in a minor org who then writes "we at BigCo did this". I should know, I've done the Dave thing 🙃