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As more apps interconnect to provide mission-critical services, developers must mitigate the risks of such reliance.

More and more, web apps are becoming interconnected with one another. In general, of course, this is a very good thing, but it nonetheless introduces dependencies between these apps. And as more apps come to rely on one another to provide critical services in our day-to-day work lives, the greater the consequences to both our data and our productivity if and when these apps fail.