It’s hard. I’ve been on one of these kind of teams for a few years now. We have probably 50-70 teams and well over 2000 deployable products. There are good th

It’s hard. I’ve been on one of these kind of teams for a few years now. We have probably 50-70 teams and well over 2000 deployable products. There are good things, for sure. But of five teams, we’re the only one of them that is focused on the ‘customer’ (application developers). The devops/infra teams provide ways for AppDevs to build what they need, but there seems to be no good abstractions being made. Our team is named and presented as a team that provides common libraries, templates, ‘golden paths’, etc. But then the reality is we have barely any time for that. Instead we get tasked with projects that are indeed important from a $$$$ perspective, but it doesn’t fit well into an existing capability team. Which is fine, but it feels dishonest to the rest of the engineers that are using our products thinking that’s the main thing we do.