The text discusses how the company Equi uses Hasura Self-Hosted for its backend service to increase productivity. It explains that managing configuration with multiple developers can be challenging and provides a solution using Docker Compose, a sidecar container called 'hasurawatcher', and inotify scripts. These automations ensure metadata changes from remote are imported and make it easier to export and commit metadata changes. The author also mentions the benefits of this setup for development workflow and emphasizes its importance in building powerful applications with confidence.