Hilarious how true this can be, at some point I worked at a place that had three different competing setups for data workflows, with completely different stacks

Hilarious how true this can be, at some point I worked at a place that had three different competing setups for data workflows, with completely different stacks in all the possible ways: different programming languages, data stores, pipeline orchestrators, etc. An absolute mess of technologies that no single person could make sense, backfilling when something went wrong could need 5-10 people to coordinate. The running joke was that the data engineering department was trying to compete with the frontend devs on how fast they could throw a whole architecture out for a new fad.