> For the developer tools side I like what Shopify did but I would never recommend that to my employer. Too many moving parts and not enough people using it that I would feel safe about it.

I'm not sure I understand you. In their case this became the standard dev environment. Everyone in the company is using it and the true benefit is that it makes development predictable. You only need one command to set up dev environment. He also mentioned that it is much faster than the old way.