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Weak Business App Ops At Ravello
- Gil Hoffer describes how Ravello's internal business app management was the weakest link despite strong engineering practices.
- That pain persisted after Oracle acquired Ravello and inspired the creation of Salto to fix business app operations.
SaaS Sprawl Creates Hidden Critical Systems
- Companies run hundreds of SaaS apps and heavily customize them to match business processes.
- Those customizations create mission-critical, interconnected systems that lack devops-style tools and processes.
Business Configs Are As Complex As Code
- Salto treats business-app configuration like infrastructure as code, extracting large text configs into a declarative language.
- This reveals huge configuration size and dependency complexity comparable to large software systems.