Why technology standardization is the new black for incumbents

Standardization and, in more realistic terms, pragmatic standardization and where it makes sense has become the technological new black in the industry and it is included in the DevOps evolution agenda of every single incumbent. If you remember, standardization and simplification are two of the core strategic objectives and DevOps OKRs that we defined in Chapter 2, The DevOps Multi-Speed Context, Vision, Objectives, and Change Nature. As we have repeated several times in this book, your organization is most probably coming from a technological solutions proliferation and duplication context, which, depending on the conditions and circumstances, is of a larger or smaller scale. There is no better space to look at materializing standardization than technology. The benefits can be numerous and its methods balance between coercive (cost cutting, technical debt, and regulatory demand) and operational efficiencies (maintenance...