This headline made me chuckle. One of my biggest disappointments while working at NYT Digital in the late 00s was that there were so many engineers. To organi

This headline made me chuckle. One of my biggest disappointments while working at NYT Digital in the late 00s was that there were so many engineers. To organize them all, technologies and staff were piled into silos (eg the database team, the platform team, the frontend team), requiring painfully complicated communication for significant projects. Things moved very slowly there. It was so bad that my department director jokingly recommended hastening a small, public-facing project by using Google Spreadsheets as a datastore, rather than deal with the overhead of involving the database team. I took his advice at face value and shipped the app quickly. He grinned, and said in a congratulatory tone, "you actually used Google Spreadsheets!" It was like a subversive victory.