Proportional Solutions Matter - The Cost of Being a Bigger Company Than You Are

There’s a quiet trap in modern engineering culture: the belief that maturity comes from infrastructure sophistication. You start with a few microservices, then a platform team, then centralized Terraform, Kubernetes, Backstage, and a layer of automations on top. Before long, it feels like you’ve arrived. You’ve built a “serious engineering organisation.” The problem is that these systems are…