Standardize, consolidate, or diversify
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In this lesson
decide when to converge and when to allow variety.
Planned topics
- Standardize where variety costs a lot and gives little: CI, logging, base images.
- Allow diversity where problems differ: specialized datastores, analytics tools.
- Consolidate duplicates when the savings exceed migration cost.
- Use a simple test: cost of variety versus benefit of fit.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
a table of five areas (CI, language, message broker, datastore, observability) with the recommendation and reason.
Check your understanding
When allow diversity?
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When problems genuinely differ and the fit gain exceeds the cost of supporting another option.
Practice
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