Internal tooling is a mess at most companies I've worked at. At a certain scale it's worth the savings to standardize, improve, and reduce the shared friction c

Internal tooling is a mess at most companies I've worked at. At a certain scale it's worth the savings to standardize, improve, and reduce the shared friction costs. Stripe, as it has scaled, has ran into challenges and invests in the same efforts. FB internal tooling was (is?) a mess. It goes on. The surprise here is it's such a late investment from Amazon, but it's worked for them thus far. I'm guessing the returns on +1 engineer has plateaued or declined, leading to this effort.