FWIW this is just the way life is in large companies: you have to trade-off individuality vs. company-wide productivity.
Granted, both extremes are bad, and finding a happy medium is hard.
Hopefully the architecture group's "recommended"/mandated stack also includes great out-of-the-box, company-wide tooling like metrics, error logging, etc., etc.
If their solution doesn't provide these perks, well, yes, that's not as useful.
> Hopefully the architecture group's "recommended"/mandated stack also includes great out-of-the-box, company-wide tooling like metrics, error logging, etc., etc.
Mostly they jump on hype train. Few months back it was netflix stack now it seems they are moving to something else. My main work is on a large(ish) application which is in production long before merger. So for now I am not forced on to jump on their architectural astronautery. I just play around with other technologies etc.
Granted, both extremes are bad, and finding a happy medium is hard.
Hopefully the architecture group's "recommended"/mandated stack also includes great out-of-the-box, company-wide tooling like metrics, error logging, etc., etc.
If their solution doesn't provide these perks, well, yes, that's not as useful.