Hits way close to home

But as the “founding engineer” from this story, I made a lot of product level calls to avoid the layering of “urgent easy features” that would cost x100 in support down the road.

I also heavily protected my team against crunch and was the only one affected on the rare occasions it was required.

Learning how to say no constructively is a core engineering skill in startups.

Haven’t used YAMS

But having read the page, I’d say it’s much more pluggable.

There are dozens of community plugins to install other docker based tools with Saltbox.

Also, it’s a rewrite of an older project and has been in development for longer than YAMS. I’ve been using it for around 8 years or so.

Just use Saltbox

https://docs.saltbox.dev/saltbox/basics/basics/

It’s exactly what you’re trying to achieve but battle tested