> I really like the model where a single team in a company, with Product + Dev, can quickly ship, iterate on a new product, and prove market demand without goin

> I really like the model where a single team in a company, with Product + Dev, can quickly ship, iterate on a new product, and prove market demand without going through layers and layers of internal bureaucracy (Ops/Infra, Security, Privacy/Legal, Finance approval for production-scale), with the main stipulation being that such work is marked as alpha/beta/preview, and only going through the layers of internal bureaucracy once it's ready to go GA. Speaking from personal experience, what you're claiming as 'good', for CF meant SRE- usually core, but edge also suffered- got stuck with trying to fix a fundamentally broken design that was known faulty- and called faulty repeatedly- but forced through. Nothing about this is desirable or will end well. This reckoning was known and raised by multiple SRE near a decade before this occurred, and there were multiple near misses in the last few years that were ignored. The part that's probably funny- and painful- for ex-CF SRE is that the company will do a hard pivot and try to rectify this mess. It's always harder to fix after, rather than building for, and they've ignored this for a long while.