This has nothing to do with technology or tooling, this is your team having the autonomy to do what works for you. At my current client, my team is dependent o

This has nothing to do with technology or tooling, this is your team having the autonomy to do what works for you. At my current client, my team is dependent on the "Platform Team" for _everything_ that isn't directly related to the code we're writing. Do we need a new Azure queue? That's a Platform ticket in JIRA. Do we need a new tool in our CI/CD pipeline? That's a Platform ticket in JIRA. Do we have a build failing for something other than tests? That's a Platform ticket in JIRA. Do we have an issue in production? We need to engage with Cloud Ops because we don't have access to anything in prod. Plus, it takes six weeks to get a feature from development to production because horrible workflow and manual processes. Plus, development teams are prevented from implementing anything without the approval of Solution Architects who are too far removed from the business to understand what's needed and too far removed from the technology to be able to design a working solution. It's all fucking horrible, and yet we're using all the modern cloud tooling: Spring Boot, Azure, containers, K8S, Gitlab pipelines. In contrast, a couple clients ago my team had full autonomy to do what we believed was the right solution. Stories would often be groomed, implemented, and delivered into production all within a 2-week sprint. No muss no fuss. When they weren't, it was normally due to us having to wait on another team to deliver their work.