Stop Building Apps, Start Engineering Control Planes

Most organizations think more apps means more productivity. They’re wrong. More apps mean more governance surface area — more connectors, more owners, more permissions, more data pathways, and more tickets when something breaks. Governance-by-humans doesn’t scale. Control planes scale trust. This episode breaks down a single operating model shift — from building apps to engineering control planes — that consistently reduces governance-related support tickets by ~40%. This channel does control, not crafts. 1. The Foundational Misunderstanding: “An App Is the Solution” An app is not the solution. An app is a veneer over:
Identity decisionsConnector pathwaysEnvironment boundariesLifecycle eventsAuthorization graphsWhat gets demoed isn’t what gets audi...