My experience at mega corps has been the opposite: instead of a widespread, open source, robust implementation we had to suffer with a home grown, poorly supported, buggy, inferior product because it had the sponsorship of a politically important executive.
Truly dispiriting to be unable to use JSON or Protobuf, because some executive director claims his “standard” is better when it is demonstrably not so. In the end it breeds a culture of mediocrity — management has made it clear that engineering excellence is not a priority. So support the business use case, but do whatever …
Truly dispiriting to be unable to use JSON or Protobuf, because some executive director claims his “standard” is better when it is demonstrably not so. In the end it breeds a culture of mediocrity — management has made it clear that engineering excellence is not a priority. So support the business use case, but do whatever …