The larger software projects get and the more two-pizza teams work on individual functional capabilities and microservices, the higher the maintenance overhead becomes. SaltStack experienced exactly this issue with their Salt open source automation platform and has now launched an original solution that replaces object oriented programming with its Plugin-Oriented Programming (POP) framework. All future SaltStack modules will be built on POP to address the most critical challenge when it comes to the development of cloud-native distributed applications that typically consist of a continuously increasing number of microservices: scalability.