The important difference here is not which bits of technology are in use, but that YouGram has some shared standards and all the team members are using the same

The important difference here is not which bits of technology are in use, but that YouGram has some shared standards and all the team members are using the same toolset. Also, everyone has issues with documentation and one good way to limit the damage is to write build scripts or vagrant/chef build files or Ansible playbooks or Dockerfiles. The principles are the important thing.