The author seems confused about backend vs client app. "An API Kapwing depended on broke unexpectedly, and we shipped changes the same day to get our service b

The author seems confused about backend vs client app. "An API Kapwing depended on broke unexpectedly, and we shipped changes the same day to get our service back online. Since we could deploy immediately, the unexpected outage was only a small hiccup. If Kapwing was an app, it would have taken a week for the new version to get approved, go live, and rollout to users through app updates—that would have been a huge loss."