The company I’m working at currently runs around 30 Node.js microservices. At that scale, it doesn’t take long for each service to start developing its own “personality.” At first, it’s subtle. One service uses a slightly different base image; another has a bespoke CI script because of a weird test dependency. But eventually, you wake up and realize no two services work the same way. On paper, they all do the same thing: install dependencies, build TypeScript, run tests, and deploy. In practice, every repository has its own “flavor” of that workflow. ...