[wheelinsupial]

What was the time to implementation for the real solutions?

Was there any cost considerations associated with prioritizing the implementation or even limiting the scope of the solution?

[devbent]

The tooling there was amazing so a barebones services could get deployed into prod in a couple days if needs be.

That typically didn't happen because engineering reviews had to occur first.

A single command created a new repo, setup ingress/egress configs in AWS, and setup all the boilerplate to handle secrets management, environment configs, and the like.

All that was left to do was business logic.

[wheelinsupial]

It sounds like if you have production issues, there is a priority to put out an actual fix immediately.