Architects as Gatekeepers
I had experiences where every single service had to be a ticket with an architect document in order to be able to start using every new technology or service. So every engineer hates to work like that. I personally dont think thats the why to roll because thats means that process wins. Netflix is famous to have a culture where they threaten people like grown-ups. So if you have grown-ups why do you need to review every single thing people do all the time? For sure reviews are a good thing but architects as Gate Keepers are not a good thing. In general Gate Keepers(DevOps Engineers) as well is as bad as Arch as Gate Keepers. I have mixed feelings but personally, I dont think there is value in having Gate Keepers which is a very poor solution and IMHO a poor usage of people's times. So Why gate Keepers exist?