How the 2010s Blew Up the Monolithic Website into Decoupled Architectures
Early in my career as a developer working with educational institutions, media organizations and other large companies, I could see that I stood on a figurative battlefield.
IT departments had fought a war with their marketing or communications counterparts over who truly owned the website. IT departments had incentives to slow down changes to prioritize stability and security. Marketing professionals had incentives to chase faster changes. That often meant giving more people access to more layers of the stack.