What you're seeing is a collective action problem. Each team makes a rational decision, but only does so locally. Solving a collective action problem requires w

What you're seeing is a collective action problem. Each team makes a rational decision, but only does so locally. Solving a collective action problem requires widely distributed efforts that are valuable collectively, but which don't make sense individually. I collected a list of these starting at my previous employer and got up to 91 examples. Stuff like "consistent configuration names" (ssl_verify vs verify_ssl), "consistent log format", "consistent Kubernetes CRD naming scheme" etc are all examples. It is not an easy thing to solve. Especially since folks don't usually think of it in economics terms. Disclosure: I work for VMware, but not on the products you mentioned.