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  Accessibility at Scale with Craig Abbott (TetraLogical) | WCAG, Screen Readers, Design Systems 01.08.2026 59мин

  Your product passes every automated accessibility check. Does that mean anyone can actually use it?Craig Abbott is a Principal Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical and the former Head of Accessibility at the UK's Department for Work and Pensions, one of the largest government departments in the country, where he built a dedicated accessibility practice from nothing and open sourced the DWP Accessibility Manual. He has over 15 years in user centred design, previously working as a designer and design manager, and has led accessibility work across the public sector and at Elastic.In this episode we get into what "sustainable accessibility" actually means, why culture is harder to change than capability, and how to stop accessibility from walking out the door when the one passionate person leaves. Craig breaks down his three C's framework (compliance, culture, capability), the screen reader testing stack he actually recommends, and what you can realistically automate in a CI pipeline with Playwright, Cucumber and Guidepup.We also get into the uncomfortable stuff. Automated tools only catch around 40% of issues. A page can pass WCAG with two pixel text and invisible links. And with 95.8% of the top million websites failing automated checks, the LLMs writing your front end code were trained on all of it. Craig is autistic and ADHD, and he closes on cognitive accessibility, the WCAG AAA gap, and why designing for neurodivergent users is still mostly ignored.Key Topics:- What sustainable accessibility means and why third party audits alone don't get you there- Building an accessibility practice from scratch inside a 100,000 person organisation- The three C's: compliance, culture and capability, and why culture is the hardest- Embedding accessibility so it survives when the champion leaves- JAWS vs NVDA vs VoiceOver vs TalkBack, and why the "worse" reader is the better test- Running screen readers in VMs and BrowserStack without expensive licences- Accessibility acceptance tests in CI with Playwright, Cucumber and Guidepup- Why compliant does not mean usable, with two pixel fonts and invisible links as proof- Shifting accessibility left into design and research, not throwing it at developers- Why you cannot detect screen reader users in your analytics- The three highest impact things: automated tools, keyboard only, structured content- Why CSS and design systems aren't opinionated enough- AI-generated front-end code and the 95.8% problem- Whether AI browsing replaces screen readers, and why LLM interfaces are inaccessible too- Designing for neurodivergence, WCAG AAA, and the COGA guidanceCONNECT WITH CRAIG💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbott567/🐦 X: https://x.com/abbott567🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/craigabbott.bsky.social🌐 Website: https://www.craigabbott.co.ukFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 Dan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan🏢 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📸 Show Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCESTetraLogical: https://tetralogical.comWebAIM Million report: https://webaim.org/projects/million/W3C Cognitive Accessibility (COGA): https://www.w3.org/WAI/cognitive/Guidepup: https://www.guidepup.dev/axe-con: https://www.deque.com/axe-con/#accessibility #a11y #webdevelopment #wcag #frontend #inclusivedesign #softwareengineering #neurodiversity #designsystems #senorsatscale💬 Has your team ever shipped something fully compliant that users still couldn't use? Tell me about it in the comments.
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  Versatility at Scale with Carmen Huidobro (CTO, Incredible Bee) | 17 Years Freelancing, Automation, Ethical AI 26.07.2026 42мин

  Is versatility the skill that actually survives the AI shift?In this episode of Señors at Scale, I sit down with Carmen Huidobro, CTO at Incredible Bee in Vienna. Carmen has spent 17 years in tech, almost all of it freelancing, working across Objective-C, Ruby on Rails, the web, mobile, hardware, and even ABAP in an SAP consultancy. Along the way, she spent five years in developer relations and developer education, and now leads engineering on long-lived macOS products like Renamer.Her argument is that the debate about generalists versus specialists misses the point. What matters is being an expert at adapting: recognizing patterns, carrying solutions across stacks, and dropping into unfamiliar environments without bringing chaos with you. Niches are not going away, but the durable skill is the one that moves between them.We also get into the part most teams get wrong: how to ship AI without betraying the people who use your software. Carmen walks through adding a local LLM to a twenty-year-old Mac app using Mistral and a llama.cpp runtime, why the model downloads on demand instead of shipping in the binary, and why it is opt-in rather than opt-out. Plus, the refugee hackathon app she built in 2016 that the City of Vienna still runs today, why she will not take money from junior developers for bootcamps, and what she calls "white guy-driven development".Key Topics:- Why versatility beats both generalism and specialization- Seventeen years of freelancing across stacks, platforms, and industries- SAP, ABAP, and why niche expertise never disappears- Building an ethical AI toolkit: Mistral, llama.cpp, and on-device inference- Adding an LLM to a legacy macOS app without breaking user trust- Opt in over opt out, and why you should never take features away- Deciding what should be automated and what should not- Pushing back when investors demand AI in the product- Where2Help: the 2016 refugee hackathon project in Vienna still runs- Why the junior developer market broke and what bootcamps can still fix- Stop telling women they have imposter syndrome- What AI will never teach you about solving problemsCONNECT WITH CARMEN🌐 Website: https://carmenh.dev🐦 X: https://x.com/hola_soy_milk🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/hola-soy-milk🐘 Mastodon: https://hola-soy-milk.online/FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan🏢 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📸 Show Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCESIncredible Bee: https://incrediblebee.comBad Website Club: https://badwebsite.clubDistribute Aid: https://distributeaid.org#Versatility #Freelancing #Automation #EthicalAI #LocalLLM #Mistral #macOS #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #CTO #Podcast #SenorsAtScale💬 Are you betting on going deep or going wide right now? Tell me in the comments.
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  CI/CD at Scale with Marko Gaćeša (Semaphore) | Semaphore, Product Engineering, Agent Native 19.07.2026 45мин

  Is testing, not coding, the real bottleneck of the AI era?Marko Gaćeša is Head of Product at Semaphore, the agent native CI/CD platform built for coding agents: fast, affordable, enterprise-ready, and fully open source. A serial entrepreneur and technologist, Marko founded Dry Tools, served as Chief Product Officer at Alchemy Cloud, and has spent his career building high-quality software across domains such as medical equipment and industrial automation before entering the crowded CI/CD market.In this episode, Marko breaks down what it takes to build a product for developers: why flaky tests are the worst enemy of fast delivery, how SemAI uses skills and agents to automate everything from GitHub Actions migration to flaky test analysis, and why the future developer experience lives inside your coding agent, not in a browser tab. We also go deep on the product side: running experiments with feature flags, pricing a CI/CD platform when a "minute of CI" means something different everywhere, product-led growth versus B2B sales, and structuring lean product teams when your engineers are the domain experts.Key Topics:- What Semaphore does and why CI/CD matters- Testing is the biggest bottleneck in the age of coding agents- What "agent native" CI/CD really means- Flaky tests and how SemAI helps agents debug them- Migrating from GitHub Actions automatically- How Semaphore achieves faster and cheaper builds- Running product experiments on infrastructure tools- Pricing strategy in the CI/CD market- Should AI agents trigger deployments?- Product team structure in developer tools- Book recommendations for product-minded engineersCONNECT WITH MARKO & SEMAPHORE💼 Marko on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markogacesa/🌐 Semaphore: https://semaphore.io/🐦 Semaphore on X: https://x.com/semaphoreci🐙 Semaphore on GitHub: https://github.com/semaphoreio💼 Semaphore on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/semaphoreciFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudev💼 Dan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan💼 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/ADDITIONAL RESOURCES- Semaphore open source repo: https://github.com/semaphoreio/semaphore/- Semaphore CI/CD benchmark: https://semaphore.io/semaphore-ci-cd-benchmark-performance-and-cost-analysis- Semaphore docs: https://docs.semaphore.io/- Books mentioned: Hug Your Haters by Jay Baer, plus Inspired, Empowered, and Transformed by Marty Cagan and the Silicon Valley Product Group#CICD #Semaphore #ProductEngineering #AgentNative #DevTools #DeveloperExperience #AIAgents #SoftwareEngineering💬 Would you let an AI agent trigger your production deployments? Tell us in the comments.
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  AI Harness at Scale with Maxim Salnikov (Microsoft) | GitHub Copilot, Agent Ops, Context Engineering 12.07.2026 44мин

  Everyone can buy the same GitHub Copilot licenses. So what actually makes a company AI native?In this episode of Señors at Scale, Dan Neciu sits down with Maxim Salnikov, AI Dev Tools Solution Engineer at Microsoft, where he leads AI native development enablement for over 100 enterprise customers of Microsoft and GitHub in Norway. Maxim has been building for the web since the late 90s and now spends his days inside real enterprise dev teams, watching how AI adoption succeeds and fails across finance, energy, agriculture, and pure software companies.Maxim breaks down why AI adoption is a change management problem, not a technology problem, and why buying licenses is the easy part. We get into the anatomy of an AI harness, the internal layer that ships with tools like Copilot and Claude Code, and the external layer that successful companies build on top for their own codebases. He also makes the case for two new job titles emerging inside dev teams: context engineers and agent ops.Key Topics:- Why startups outpace enterprises in AI adoption, and how to close the gap- Handling AI skeptics: why one bad experience in 2023 shouldn't be the final verdict- Code as a secondary artifact: the harness is what you actually build- Internal vs external harness layers, and how the VS Code team builds its own tools- Context engineers and agent ops: the new roles appearing in team topology- The AI superheroes anti-pattern and why it doesn't scale- Managing agent skills like dependencies with APM (Agent Package Manager)- How to become an AI native engineer: orchestration over one-to-one chatCONNECT WITH MAXIM💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/webmax/🐦 X: https://x.com/webmaxru🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/webmaxru🌐 Sessionize: https://sessionize.com/maxim-salnikov/FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 Dan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan🏢 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCES📖 Agentic SDLC Handbook (free book mentioned in the episode)📦 APM (Agent Package Manager)#AINativeDevelopment #GitHubCopilot #ContextEngineering #AIHarness #SoftwareEngineering #Microsoft #AgenticAI #DeveloperProductivity💬 Is your team building its own harness on top of AI dev tools, or running them out of the box? Drop a comment 👇
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  URL State at Scale with François Best | nuqs, React, TypeScript 04.07.2026 53мин

  What if your app's state didn't live in memory, but in the URL?François Best is a freelance web developer, open sourcer, and founder of 47ng, where he builds web applications with a privacy-first approach. He is the creator of nuqs, the type-safe search param state manager for React with over 10,000 GitHub stars, used by companies like Sentry, Supabase, Vercel, and Clerk.In this episode, François shares the full story of nuqs, from a woodworking calculator he built during the pandemic to a framework-agnostic library supporting Next.js, React Router, Remix, and TanStack. We dig into the internals: the async update queue, browser rate limits on the History API, throttling and debouncing, render count budgets, and the end-to-end test suite that keeps it all stable across frameworks.We also go beyond the library. François breaks down the recent npm supply chain attacks, explains how staged publishing and reproducible builds protect maintainers, shares how AI agents changed his workflow (including a Cypress to Playwright migration done by Claude Code on Christmas Day), and makes the case for running local AI models when your code can't leave the building.Key Topics:- What nuqs is and the origin story behind it- URL as the source of truth and the async scheduling engine- Browser rate limits, throttling, and debounce semantics- Framework adapters: Next.js, React Router, Remix, TanStack- End-to-end testing across frameworks and render count budgets- What state belongs in the URL (and what doesn't)- Hidden nuqs features: loaders, serializers, URL keys, standard schema- The npm supply chain attacks and how to defend as a maintainer- AI agents in open source: migrations, RFC prototyping, slop PRs- Local AI models for privacy-conscious companiesCONNECT WITH FRANÇOIS🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/franky47🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/francoisbest.com🌐 Website: https://francoisbest.comFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudev💼 Dan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan💼 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/ADDITIONAL RESOURCES- nuqs: https://nuqs.dev- nuqs on GitHub: https://github.com/47ng/nuqs- TkDodo's blog: https://tkdodo.eu/blog- Aurora Scharff's blog: https://aurorascharff.no#React #nuqs #TypeScript #URLState #NextJS #OpenSource #WebDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #SenorsAtScale💬 What state do you keep in the URL, and have you ever rolled your own search param sync? Tell us in the comments.
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  WebMCP at Scale with Susanna Wong (Typeform, Google Developer Expert) | Browser AI, Offline Models, Agents 28.06.2026 42мин

  What happens to frontend engineering when software stops being deterministic?In this episode of Señors at Scale, Dan Neciu sits down with Susanna Wong, Staff Software Engineer at Typeform and Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies since 2020. Susanna's path is anything but typical: she studied engineering in the US, spent close to seven years as an architect and computational designer at firms like Arup, then pivoted back into software, building Kedro and Kedro-Viz at QuantumBlack before moving into AI features at V7 and now Typeform.Susanna breaks down the shift from training your own ML models to building on top of LLMs, what Web AI and offline browser models really offer, and the cross-browser hurdles still blocking local-first AI. She also takes us inside Typeform's multi-agent system, how the team thinks about evals for non-deterministic features, and why WebMCP could change how all of us build websites.Key Topics:- From architecture and computational design to frontend AI- Building Kedro and Kedro-Viz at QuantumBlack- Why training your own models gave way to the LLM baseline- Web AI, offline models, and on-device inference- The cross-browser problem with local-first AI- Typeform's multi-agent system: LangChain, A2A, MCP tools- Evals as unit tests for non-deterministic AI features- Offline vs online evals and tracking drift in production- WebMCP: bringing the web to agents💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanna-wong-london/🐦 X: https://x.com/studioswong🌐 Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcLZGfXKk8cFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📩 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📸 Show Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/👤 Dan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan📸 Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCES- Kedro: https://kedro.org- WebMCP / React Paris talk on the agent web- Typeform AI: https://www.typeform.com#WebAI #WebMCP #SoftwareEngineering #Frontend #AIAgents #Evals #StaffEngineer #Typeform #MachineLearning #Podcast #SenorsAtScale💬 Are you building with offline browser models yet, or still calling the API for everything? Let me know below.
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  Newsletters at Scale with Sebastian Lorber (This Week in React) | RSS Curation, Paid Acquisition, React Server Components 21.06.2026 47мин

  What does it actually take to run one of the biggest newsletters in the React ecosystem, week after week, for over six years?In this episode of Señors at Scale, Dan Neciu sits down with Sebastian Lorber, creator of This Week in React, the newsletter read by over 45,000 developers every week, and a core maintainer of Docusaurus at Meta. Sebastian has worked with React since late 2013, spent years as an independent consultant, and slowly turned a side project into his full indie hacker income.Sebastian pulls back the curtain on the entire operation: how a French newsletter aimed at landing consulting gigs became an English curation powerhouse, the exhaustive weekly workflow across 2,000 X profiles and 500+ RSS feeds, and the Gmail size limit that quietly shapes every issue. We get into the unglamorous economics too, why French sponsors couldn't make it sustainable, how he prices and manages four ad slots a week, and why click counts are far more misleading than most sponsors think.The conversation also covers the human side of curation: walking back mistakes with link proxies, staying friends with maintainers while breaking their unannounced work, the slow decline of social reach, and why he checks React feature flags before telling anyone a feature is "shipped." Plus a candid look at the recent TanStack compromise, trusted publishing, and why it gives a false sense of safety.Key Topics:- Starting a French newsletter to attract consulting clients- Pivoting to English and converting an X audience- The exhaustive weekly curation workflow (X lists, RSS, InnoReader)- The Gmail truncation limit and how it shapes each issue- Why French sponsors couldn't make it sustainable- Managing four sponsors a week with Sponsy- Why click metrics are misleading (Apple, corporate security scanners, UTM)- Paid acquisition on X, Instagram, Reddit and what actually converts- Treating subscribers like a stream, not a possession- Checking React flags before announcing features- React Server Components, the activity component, and Docusaurus- The TanStack compromise, trusted publishing, and NPM securityGUEST LINKS💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastienlorber/🐦 X: https://x.com/sebastienlorber🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/slorber🌐 This Week in React: https://thisweekinreact.com/FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📨 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/👤 My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan📸 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCESThis Week in React: https://thisweekinreact.com/Docusaurus: https://docusaurus.io/Sponsy: https://getsponsy.com/#ThisWeekInReact #Newsletter #ReactJS #Docusaurus #OpenSource #IndieHacker #ContentCuration #SoftwareEngineering #ReactServerComponents #NPMSecurity💬 Do you still read tech newsletters, or has AI and social changed how you keep up with the ecosystem? Let me know in the comments.
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  Monorepos at Scale with Santosh Yadav (Principal DevRel, CodeRabbit) | Nx, Module Federation, AI Code Review 14.06.2026 50мин

  Poly repos were good when we needed separation. But in the age of AI, do we still need it? Santosh Yadav doesn't think so.In this episode of Señors at Scale, I sit down with Santosh Yadav, Principal Developer Advocate at CodeRabbit, Google Developer Expert for Angular, GitHub Star, Nx Champion, and Microsoft MVP. Santosh has spent years deep in the monorepo world, including leading the move to Module Federation and driving Nx adoption across 30+ teams during his time as a staff engineer at Celonis.We get into why monorepos are quietly becoming an AI superpower, how context changes everything when AI tools can read your dependency graph, and what it actually takes to migrate 20+ apps off polyrepos. Santosh also pulls back the curtain on CodeRabbit: how they handle context engineering for code review, why they run evals against 40+ models, their AI slop detector for open source, and how the team reacted when the big labs shipped their own code reviewers.Key Topics:- Becoming a GDE, GitHub Star, and Nx Champion (and what each actually gives you)- Migrating 20+ apps to Module Federation at Celonis- Monorepo vs Polyrepo in the age of AI- Why AI tools thrive on monorepo context- What Nx really is and when you need it- Inside CodeRabbit: context engineering, model evals, and the AI slop detector- Sponsoring open source with $1M+ in commitments- How startups survive when the big labs ship competing featuresGUEST LINKS💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/santoshyadavdev/🐦 X: https://x.com/SantoshYadavDev🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/santoshyadavdev🌐 Website: https://www.santoshyadav.dev/FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📨 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/👤 My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan📸 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCESCodeRabbit: https://www.coderabbit.ai/Nx: https://nx.dev/#Monorepo #Nx #ModuleFederation #AICodeReview #CodeRabbit #Angular #DeveloperExperience #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #StaffEngineerWhat's your take, are monorepos the right move in the age of AI, or is polyrepo still worth defending? 💬
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  Routing at Scale with TanStack Router's Nicolas Beaussart | React Router Migration, Monorepos, PayFit 07.06.2026 44мин

  What do you do when React Router v5 is blocking your React 18 upgrade, your frontend spans 25 repos, and you have 5 different micro frontend strategies running in the same app?In this episode of Señors at Scale, Dan Neciu sits down with Nicolas Beaussart-Hatchuel, Staff Engineer at PayFit and maintainer of TanStack Router. Nicolas shares the full story of migrating a 1.5 million-line codebase from React Router v5 to TanStack Router using the strangler pattern, without big-bang migrations and without stopping 18 engineers from shipping 15-20 PRs a day.We also dive into the origin story of TanStack Router, why PayFit killed micro frontends entirely and moved back to a single monorepo, how building the whole app at once saved 25MB of JavaScript, and why his MCP experiments performed worse than simply letting AI agents read the code. Plus: what it really takes to go from senior to staff engineer.Key Topics:- How Nicolas got into coding and his first iframe-based micro frontend migration- The origin story of TanStack Router and URL-as-state- Migrating 1.5M lines from React Router v5 to TanStack Router- The strangler pattern applied to frontend migrations- Faking React Router providers to sync two routers on one URL- Consolidating 25 repos into one monorepo- Secret dependencies, Yarn v1 pain, and standardizing on Vite- Why dropping per-library builds saved 25MB of JavaScript- TypeScript Go in editors and its RAM cost- MCP servers vs agents reading code directly- Internal DevRel: winning engineers over with social proof- Going from senior to staff: system design and finding problems worth solving- What's next: TanStack Start v1 and parallel routesConnect with Nicolas:💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beaussan/🐦 X: https://x.com/beaussan🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/beaussan🌐 Website: https://beaussan.ioFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE:🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 Dan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan💼 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCES:- TanStack Router: https://tanstack.com/router- Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner- Scaling Fast by Swizec Teller- Swizec's newsletter: https://swizec.com#TanStackRouter #React #Monorepo #MicroFrontends #FrontendArchitecture #TypeScript #StaffEngineer #SenorsAtScale💬 Have you ever had to migrate a router in a live codebase? What pattern did you use? Drop it in the comments.
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  Redux at Scale with Mark Erikson | State Management, RTK Query, Time Travel Debugging 31.05.2026 48мин

  What happens when the person maintaining one of the most widely used libraries on the internet tells you AI is coming for debugging, too?Mark Erikson is the maintainer of Redux, creator of Redux Toolkit, and a senior front-end engineer at Replay.io, where he works on a time-traveling debugger. He's been shipping software since 2008, from emulating legacy CPUs in old aircraft at Northrop Grumman to modernizing a Redux codebase used by millions of developers. And remarkably, Redux has always been a free-time project for him.In this episode, Dan sits down with Mark to trace the full arc of Redux: how it started as a 2015 conference demo on time travel, how it conquered (and then over-saturated) the React ecosystem, and how Redux Toolkit and RTK Query reshaped the way people actually use it today. We also get into one of the most fascinating technical stories in the episode, how Mark got source maps into React's build pipeline and what happened next.Then we look forward. Mark walks through how Replay records the entire browser, how Replay MCP gives AI agents the same time travel debugging tools a human would have, and a real example where an agent went from fumbling for 15 minutes to finding a root cause in under two.Key Topics:- The origin of Redux and how it killed off the other Flux libraries- What Redux Toolkit solves and the persistent "boilerplate" myth- RTK Query vs React Query design tradeoffs- The listener middleware and a two-year API design journey- Getting source maps into React's build pipeline- How Replay records and replays the entire browser- Replay MCP and AI agents that auto-investigate failing testsGUEST LINKS💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/markerikson🐦 https://twitter.com/acemarke🐙 https://github.com/markerikson🌐 https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/acemarke.devFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBEInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevPodcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scaleNewsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribeDan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudanShow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/ADDITIONAL RESOURCESRedux: https://redux.js.orgRedux Toolkit: https://redux-toolkit.js.orgReplay: https://replay.ioMark's blog post on the listener middleware and source maps work: https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com#Redux #ReactJS #JavaScript #StateManagement #WebDevelopment #FrontEnd #SoftwareEngineering #OpenSource #Debugging #ReduxToolkit💬 What's the one thing you used to think AI would never be able to do for you as an engineer?
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  TanStack Query at Scale with Dominik Dorfmeister (TkDodo) | Open Source, Knip, Sentry Design System 24.05.2026 53мин

  What does it actually feel like to maintain a library used by millions of developers every day?In this episode of Seniors at Scale, Dan sits down with Dominik Dorfmeister, better known as TkDodo, the creator and maintainer of TanStack Query and a software engineer at Sentry. Dominik has spent over a decade building frontend tooling and has become one of the most trusted voices in the React and TypeScript ecosystem.Dominik shares how he got into open source during the pandemic lockdowns, simply by answering questions in Discord, and how that habit grew into maintaining one of React's most widely adopted libraries. He talks candidly about the breaking change that went wrong, why major versions are "the pain of his existence," and what he has learned about shipping changes to a community that only shows up with feedback after release.The conversation also digs into his work at Sentry, where he used Knip to remove 28,000 lines of dead code, and his team's work building a new design system within a 10-year-old, million-line codebase.Key Topics:- Getting into open source by answering community questions- Becoming the maintainer of TanStack Query- Tracked queries and the first big performance feature- Why major version releases are so painful- The version 4 to 5 breaking change that went wrong- Epoch versioning as an alternative to semver- Using Knip to find and remove dead code- Building a design system in a large, legacy codebase- What is planned for TanStack Query version 6Guest: Dominik Dorfmeister (TkDodo)🌐 Blog: https://tkdodo.eu/blog🦋 BluSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tkdodo.eu🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/TkDodoFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/🌐 Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📨 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/Connect with Dan:💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCESTanStack Query: https://tanstack.com/queryKnip: https://knip.devSentry: https://sentry.ioTkDodo's blog: https://tkdodo.eu/blog#ReactJS #TanStackQuery #OpenSource #FrontendDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #WebDevelopment #TypeScript #Sentry💬 What is your take: should libraries do fewer, bigger major versions, or more frequent, smaller ones? Let us know in the comments.
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  Performance Engineering at Canva with Den Odell (Staff Engineer & Manning Author) 17.05.2026 50мин

  What happens to "edge cases" when your product serves 250 million people every month?In this episode of Señors at Scale, I'm joined by Den Odell, Staff Software Engineer at Canva and author of "Performance Engineering in Practice" (Manning, 2026). Den works on Canva's Pro Design group, building inside one of the largest React/TypeScript codebases on the planet, serving 250M+ monthly users across 190+ countries.Before Canva, Den spent 9 years at Volvo Cars architecting their Offer Selector and Car Configurator (powering vehicle purchases across 70+ markets), and 13 years at AKQA leading global frontend engineering for Nike, MINI, and Nokia. He's authored three books, the latest of which introduces the Fast by Default framework, a methodology for treating performance as a design decision from day one rather than a panic fix at the end.We get into how Canva ships safely at a planetary scale (feature flags, dogfooding, geofenced rollouts, test parties), the protobuf-based RPC layer powering their frontend/backend communication, async-first culture across global timezones, and why most teams are stuck in what Den calls the Performance Decay Cycle.Key Topics:Why bugs scale with your user base (and what to do about it)Canva's release pipeline: staff → beta → geofenced regions → worldTest parties, dogfooding, and catching weirdness before users doProtogen, CDF, and how Canva moves data between frontend and backendOperational transforms for real-time collaborationThe Performance Decay Cycle and why "performance sprints" are brokenFast by Default: making speed everyone's responsibility, not just engineeringPerceived performance, AI loading states, and the Pac-Man tape loader lessonAsync work culture when "the sun never sets on the Canva Empire"Building for crazy big goals (what does Canva look like at 1 billion users?)GUEST SOCIALS💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denodell🐦 X/Twitter: https://x.com/denodell🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/denodell🌐 Website: https://denodell.comFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🌐 Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📧 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 Show LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/💼 Dan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan📸 Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCES📘 Performance Engineering in Practice (Manning, 2026): https://www.manning.com/books/performance-engineering-in-practice🔧 Code listings on GitHub: https://github.com/denodell/performance-engineering-in-practice✍️ Den's blog: https://denodell.com/blog📕 The Product-Minded Engineer (Drew Hoskins, O'Reilly): mentioned in episode#Frontend #Canva #FeatureFlags #Dogfooding #PerformanceEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #WebDevelopment #StaffEngineer #ReactJS #TypeScript #Podcast #SenorsAtScale💬 What's the worst "edge case turned major incident" you've shipped to production? Drop it in the comments.
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  Frontend at Meta with Evyatar Alush | Hack, Flow, Sapling, Open Source at Scale 10.05.2026 54мин

  What does engineering at Meta actually look like from the inside? Spoiler: almost nothing you know from outside applies.In this episode, Dan sits down with Evyatar Alush, Software Engineer at Meta in Tel Aviv and the creator of EmojiPicker React (600K+ weekly downloads) and Vest. Evyatar's journey is one of the most unusual on the show: no degree, no high school diploma, learned JavaScript on Code Academy during military night shifts in a server room, then talked his way into Fiverr, scaled to Front End Platform Lead, and got recruited into Facebook in 2019.We get into what it's actually like inside Meta's frontend infrastructure: Hack instead of PHP, Flow instead of TypeScript, Relay instead of Apollo, Sapling instead of Git, stacked diffs instead of pull requests, and a custom everything (testing frameworks, ORMs, dev servers, data centers). We also cover his open source philosophy, why he builds his own libraries instead of pulling dependencies, the supply chain risks of modern npm, and how AI-assisted code is reshaping open source maintainer work.Key Topics:- Learning to code on military night shifts with zero CS background- Joining Fiverr with one year of experience and bluffing through the interview- Building Fiverr's notification system, in-app inbox, and toast library- Creating EmojiPicker React from a Fiverr internal tool- The "Unmask" manifesto and starting Fiverr's frontend infrastructure team- Designing the Front Ants team by faking the trappings of a real team- Building micro-frontends that bridge a Ruby on Rails monolith and React- Saying no to Facebook on the first email- Interviewing at Meta in London (and the Dan Abramov interview)- The Calibra/Diem crypto wallet team during COVID- Hack vs PHP, Flow vs TypeScript, Relay vs Apollo, Sapling vs Git- Stacked diffs and why ex-Meta engineers miss them- Why "move fast and break things" is dead at Meta- Code review, dev mod servers, and end-to-end testing at scale- Open source maintenance in the AI era and Cursor-generated PRs- Why he owns the "context" package on npmGUEST: Evyatar Alush💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evyataralush-5b760866🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/ealush🌐 EmojiPicker React: https://github.com/ealush/emoji-picker-react🌐 Vest: https://vestjs.devFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudev🎙 Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/ADDITIONAL RESOURCES- EmojiPicker React: https://www.npmjs.com/package/emoji-picker-react- Vest (form validation): https://vestjs.dev- Sapling (Meta's source control): https://sapling-scm.com- The Hack language: https://hacklang.org- Flow: https://flow.org- Relay: https://relay.dev- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss#Meta #Facebook #Frontend #ReactJS #HackLang #Flow #Relay #Sapling #StackedDiffs #OpenSource #EmojiPickerReact #Vest #SoftwareEngineering #SenorsAtScale💬 What's your take on Meta's "everything in-house" engineering culture? Would you rather work with familiar tools or relearn engineering from scratch for better internal infrastructure?
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  React Native at Scale with Kadi Kraman, Software Developer at Expo | Mobile Development, EAS, OTA Updates 03.05.2026 51мин

  What does it actually take to build production React Native apps in 2026, and where does Expo fit in?In this episode of Señors at Scale, Dan sits down with Kadi Kraman, software developer at Expo, who has spent over six years in the React Native ecosystem, wearing every hat from IC to director. Kadi shares the story of how she went from writing C++ in a maths degree to becoming one of the early React Native engineers at Formidable, and eventually joining Expo to work on the platform itself.We dig into what makes React Native genuinely competitive with native iOS and Android development today, why Expo Go is now just for prototyping, how EAS workflows and fingerprint-based repacks dramatically speed up CI, the real story on OTA updates (and where the legal gray area sits), and what's still missing from the ecosystem. Kadi also gives a rare look at the new Expo agent for vibe-coding mobile apps, the case for React Native brownfield, and her honest take on Lynx as competition.Key Topics:- Why React Native + Expo is faster than native Xcode/Android Studio workflows- The mental shift from web to native (display points, gestures, pixel density)- Expo Go vs development builds, and why the recommendation has changed- EAS workflows, repack jobs, and project fingerprints- React Native performance, list rendering, and the React Compiler- OTA updates: when to use them, when not to, and what the stores actually allow- Debugging strategies (expo-doctor, native logs, AI-assisted log analysis)- Brownfield React Native and embedding RN screens into existing native apps- Lynx, competition, and the future of cross-platform mobile- Career advice on imposter syndrome, applying anyway, and finding talk topicsGUEST: Kadi Kraman, Software Developer at Expo💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kadikraman/🐦 Twitter/X: https://x.com/kadikraman🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/kadikraman🌐 Website: https://kadikraman.com/FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE🎙️ Podcast: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📩 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 LinkedIn (Show): https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/💼 LinkedIn (Dan): https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan📸 Instagram (Show): https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Instagram (Dan): https://www.instagram.com/neciudevADDITIONAL RESOURCES- Expo: https://expo.dev/- Kadi's "From Web to Native with React" blog post: https://expo.dev/blog- EAS Workflows: https://docs.expo.dev/eas-workflows/get-started/- Expo Doctor: https://docs.expo.dev/more/expo-cli/#expo-doctor- Expo Fetch (streaming support): https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/expo/#ReactNative #Expo #MobileDevelopment #JavaScript #iOS #Android #EAS #ExpoRouter #SoftwareEngineering #SeñorsAtScale💬 What's your biggest pain point building React Native apps today, and have EAS workflows changed your CI setup?
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  AI at Scale with Nico Martin from Hugging Face | Transformers.js, Tokenizers, On-Device Inference 26.04.2026 52мин

  Can you really run state-of-the-art machine learning models directly in the browser, with no server, no API calls, and full privacy by default?In this episode, Nico Martin, Open Source Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face and Google Developer Expert in AI and Web Technologies, walks through how Transformers.js makes on-device AI a reality. Nico's journey is anything but conventional. He started as a ski and windsurf instructor, taught himself web development on the side, spent years as a freelancer (including five at a bank building e-banking front ends), and recently landed what he calls his dream job at Hugging Face.We unpack what Hugging Face actually is (the GitHub for machine learning), how Transformers.js brings the Python Transformers API to the browser, and the real engineering challenges of running models on whatever hardware your users happen to have. Nico explains quantization, ONNX as the standard for portable model architectures, the role of tokenizers, how text becomes tensors, and why WebGPU matters for running larger models client-side.We also dig into the bigger picture: privacy-preserving AI, the difference between open weights and truly open source models, agents and MCP, and what front-end developers should actually learn to stay relevant in an AI-first world.Key Topics:- What Hugging Face is and the role of the Hub, Transformers, and Diffusers- Transformers.js: bringing Python Transformers API to JavaScript and the browser- The biggest challenge of browser ML: running on unknown client hardware- Quantization explained (Q4, 4-bit vs 16/32-bit) and how it compresses models- ONNX and ONNX Runtime Web: the standard for portable model architectures- Open weights vs open source models and why the distinction matters- Tokenizers, token IDs, and why each model needs its own tokenizer- From text to tensors: pre-processing, inference, and post-processing- Text embeddings explained through a simple animal feature analogy- WebGPU and what it unlocks for in-browser inference- Agents, tool calling, MCP, and how context windows get consumed- Advice for developers who want to break into AI and ML engineering🔗 FOLLOW NICO💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicodotdev/🐦 X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/nic_o_martin🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nico.dev🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/nico-martin🌐 Website: https://nico.dev🎙️ FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudev🎙 Podcast URL: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES- Transformers.js: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co- ONNX: https://onnx.ai- ONNX Runtime: https://onnxruntime.ai- WebGPU: https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/- Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman#MachineLearning #AI #HuggingFace #TransformersJS #WebML #OnDeviceAI #WebGPU #ONNX #JavaScript #Frontend #WebDev #SenorsAtScale #OpenSource💬 Would you trust on-device AI over cloud-based models for sensitive data? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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  Scaling Frontend at Perk with Giorgio Polvara | Monolith to Microfrontends, Vite, Zod 19.04.2026 46мин

  What does it actually take to scale a frontend from 15 people in a converted flat to a 1,800-person unicorn, and then migrate the whole thing to microfrontends without breaking anyone's week?In this episode, Dan sits down with Giorgio Polvara, Staff Engineer at Perk (formerly TravelPerk) and the original creator of @testing-library/user-event (1M+ weekly npm downloads). Giorgio joined TravelPerk as employee #15, set up the frontend foundations that still power the product today, left to try engineering management at Toptal, realized he missed building, and came back as Staff.They get into the microfrontend migration that replaced a monolithic React app with vertically-split single-page apps served at the infrastructure layer, the rebrand that changed the name, domain, logo, and colors simultaneously, and the philosophy that ties it all together: you're not building features, you're improving a system that happens to produce features.Key Topics:- Scaling a frontend team from 7 engineers to a full platform tribe- Why 20% refactoring time is the wrong model- Monolith to microfrontends: SingleSPA vs the vertical-split architecture they built- Managing shared dependencies with pnpm, Syncpack, and Vite plugin packages- Contract testing with Pact vs runtime schema validation with Zod- Rebranding an entire product behind a feature flag, without leaking the design- Why Giorgio tried engineering management and went back to IC- Staff engineer advice: propose five solutions, expect one to land🔗 FOLLOW GIORGIO💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polvara🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/Gpx🌐 npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@testing-library/user-event🎙️ FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudev🎙 Podcast URL: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES- A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout- Out of the Tar Pit (Moseley & Marks)- No Silver Bullet (Fred Brooks)- @testing-library/user-event: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@testing-library/user-event- SingleSPA: https://single-spa.js.org- Vite: https://vitejs.dev- Pact (contract testing): https://pact.io- Zod: https://zod.dev#staffengineer #microfrontends #frontendarchitecture #perk #travelperk #reactjs #softwarearchitecture #engineeringleadership #devtools #softwaredesign #senorsatscale💬 How does your team handle the tension between shipping features and keeping the system healthy? Drop a comment 👇
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  Federated Systems at Scale with Zephyr Cloud | Module Federation, Edge Deploys, Reverse Tree Shaking 12.04.2026 49мин

  How do you deploy federated front ends to the edge in 150 milliseconds? In this episode, Zack Chapple, CEO and Co-founder of Zephyr Cloud, and Nestor Lopez, Platform Engineer at Zephyr Cloud, break down everything developers need to know about micro frontends, module federation, and deploying at global scale without the infrastructure pain.Zack's journey started at a consulting company working with enterprises like SAP to add module federation support to Angular, which eventually revealed all the pain points of scaling federated architectures. That led to Medusa, then to Zephyr Cloud, the platform he describes as "Kubernetes for the front end." Nestor's path started eight years ago with Sencha.js and iframes, long before module federation existed, and brought him to Zephyr through open source contributions to TRPC and other projects.We cover why module federation is "Docker for the front end," how Zephyr deploys with one line of code and no CI/CD pipeline, their reverse tree shaking technique that recomposes federated bundles into a monolith at the edge, how Nestor deployed 5,200+ micro frontends as a single video, their federated MCP server for enterprise AI orchestration, and a TC39 proposal to fix ESM module unloading in V8. We also talk about pricing, open source contributions, and what it's really like to build a startup with four kids.Whether you're an enterprise team trying to ship frontend independently across dozens of teams, or a solo developer who just wants to deploy without setting up a CI/CD pipeline, this conversation covers the full spectrum.Key Topics:- Micro frontends explained through the microservices and Kubernetes analogy- Module federation as "Docker for the front end" and Zephyr as the orchestration layer- End-to-end walkthrough: from bundler to global edge deploy in ~150ms- No repo required, Zephyr hooks into any bundler and deploys on build- Reverse tree shaking: monolith performance with micro frontend dev experience- The Chrome extension for hot-swapping MFEs in any environment- Federated MCP servers built on module federation for enterprise AI- TC39 proposal to fix ESM module unloading and enable live HMR on Node.js- Bring your own cloud: Cloudflare, AWS, Fastly- Pricing: free for solo, $19/seat for teams, org-wide for enterprise- Mobile support through Metro and desktop through Tauri- Open source contributions and financially supporting projects like RSPack, SWC, and Tailwind🔗 FOLLOW ZACK💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zackarychapple/🐦 X/Twitter: https://x.com/Zackary_Chapple🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/zackarychapple🔗 FOLLOW NESTOR💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nstlopez/🐦 X/Twitter: https://x.com/nstlopez🌐 Blog: https://nstlopez.com🎙️ FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudev🎙 Podcast URL: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senors-scale/📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES- Zephyr Cloud: https://zephyr-cloud.io- Module Federation: https://module-federation.io- RSPack: https://rspack.dev- Hono: https://hono.dev- shadcn/ui: https://ui.shadcn.com#MicroFrontends #ModuleFederation #ZephyrCloud #Frontend #WebDev #PlatformEngineering #DevEx #EdgeComputing #Kubernetes #SenorsAtScale #OpenSource #Startup💬 What's the most painful deployment workflow you've ever had to deal with? Share your stories in the comments!
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  ServiceMesh at Scale with William Morgan, creator of Linkerd 05.04.2026 1ч 3мин

  William Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant and the creator of Linkerd, the world's first service mesh and a CNCF graduated project powering production Kubernetes infrastructure at thousands of companies. Before founding Buoyant, William spent nearly four years at Twitter as a software engineer and engineering manager, where he shipped core platform features like the Twitter photo service and embed timelines — and watched the legendary monolith-to-microservices transformation unfold firsthand.In this episode, we cover what it was like engineering at Twitter during the fail whale era, how decomposing a monolith introduces entirely new networking challenges, why William invented the term "service mesh," and how Linkerd gives platform teams reliability, security, and observability without developers having to think about it.Whether you're a platform engineer running Kubernetes in production, an SRE trying to make sense of service-to-service communication, or a developer curious about what infrastructure teams actually do — this conversation is packed with hard-won lessons from a decade of building critical open source infrastructure.🔸 Key Topics:- Engineering at Twitter in 2010: the Rails monolith, Scala rewrite, and microservices transformation- How replacing function calls with network calls changes everything- What a service mesh is and why the term had to be invented- Control plane vs data plane architecture- Why Linkerd rewrote its proxy from Scala/JVM to Rust- Latency-aware load balancing, mTLS, and protocol detection- Multi-cluster communication and mesh expansion to VMs- Common service mesh implementation mistakes- Linkerd vs Istio: William's honest take- Open source sustainability and enterprise monetization- The enterprise sales journey from engineer to CEO- Book recommendations: Hyperion, Gideon the Ninth, The Book of the New Sun🔗 FOLLOW WILLIAM💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmorgan/🐦 X/Twitter: https://x.com/wm🌐 Buoyant: https://buoyant.io🎙️ FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudev🎙 Podcast URL: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/señors-scale/📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES- Linkerd: https://linkerd.io- Buoyant: https://buoyant.io- Linkerd Getting Started: https://docs.buoyant.io- Linkerd GitHub (Proxy): https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy- Hyperion by Dan Simmons- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir- The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe- Simon Willison's Blog (AI/LLMs): https://simonwillison.net#Linkerd #ServiceMesh #Kubernetes #Rust #CloudNative #Buoyant #CNCF #Microservices #Infrastructure #PlatformEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #SenorsAtScale💬 What's the most complex networking issue you've debugged in a microservices environment? Share your war stories in the comments!
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  Databases at Scale with Tyler Benfield (Staff Engineer @ Prisma) | ORMs, Indexes, Connection Pooling & Scaling Postgres to Billions of Requests 29.03.2026 52мин

  You can never build anything faster than your slowest database query. In this episode, Tyler Benfield, Staff Software Engineer at Prisma, breaks down everything developers need to know about database performance, from why your queries are slow to how Prisma scales Postgres to handle billions of requests on bare metal infrastructure.Tyler's path into databases started at Penske Racing, writing trackside software for NASCAR pit stops, and eventually led him deep into query optimization, connection pooling, and building Prisma Postgres from the ground up. We cover the most common ORM anti-patterns, why indexes are the single biggest performance lever most developers ignore, how Prisma Accelerate turns database connections into HTTP calls, and why Tyler thinks the SQL query language itself is fundamentally broken for modern web apps.Whether you're a frontend developer afraid to touch the database or a backend engineer scaling past your first million users, this conversation is packed with practical, immediately actionable advice.🔸 Key Topics:- ORMs vs raw SQL vs query builders and when to use each- The most common Prisma anti-patterns that tank your app performance- How database indexes actually work (the address book analogy)- Connection pooling, serverless runtimes, and the problem Prisma Accelerate solves- Scaling Postgres on bare metal with memory snapshots and scale-to-zero- Per-query pricing and why Prisma charges differently than other providers- NoSQL vs SQL and when Postgres can handle both- Why SQL is a bad query language for nested relational data- The future of AI agents and databases, MCP servers, and ephemeral environments🔗 FOLLOW TYLER💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerbenfield/🐦 X/Twitter: https://x.com/rtbenfield🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rtbenfield.dev🌐 Website: https://tylerbenfield.me🎙️ FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neciudev🎙 Podcast URL: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale📬 Newsletter: https://neciudan.dev/subscribe💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/señors-scale/📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES- Prisma ORM: https://www.prisma.io- Prisma Postgres: https://www.prisma.io/postgres- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman- The Design of Future Things by Don Norman- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann- Aaron Francis (database education): https://aaronfrancis.com#Prisma #Postgres #DatabasePerformance #ORM #TypeScript #ServerlessDatabase #ConnectionPooling #SQLOptimization #WebDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #FullStack #DatabaseIndexes #SenorsAtScale💬 What's the worst database performance issue you've ever debugged? Share your war stories in the comments!
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  Open Source at Scale with Corbin Crutchley (TanStack Form & VP of Engineering) 22.03.2026 51мин

  TanStack Form gets over a million downloads per week. Corbin Crutchley is the person behind it. But this conversation goes way beyond forms and frameworks.Corbin started coding professionally at 16, worked minimum wage at a charter school, taught himself Angular through sheer persistence, and eventually became a GitHub Star, Microsoft MVP, author of The Framework Field Guide, and VP of Engineering at Immersive Homes. Along the way, he built one of the most beloved open source form libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem and founded Playful Programming, a nonprofit that teaches people how to code for free.In this episode, we get into the real stuff: how he joined TanStack through a 30-minute conversation with Tanner Lindsley that turned into an invitation to lead a project, what it actually feels like to maintain a library that millions of projects depend on, why he almost quit open source after a wave of rude issues, and how he thinks about versioning as a social contract with your users. We also talk about framework agnostic architecture, why he wrote a free book that teaches React, Angular and Vue at the same time, the open source funding problem, and his transition from IC to VP of Engineering at Immersive Homes (which started with a game of Magic: The Gathering). He closes with something deeply personal about mental health in tech that I think everyone needs to hear.📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED- TanStack Form: https://tanstack.com/form- TanStack: https://tanstack.com- The Framework Field Guide: https://playfulprogramming.com/collections/framework-field-guide- Playful Programming: https://playfulprogramming.com- Diataxis Documentation Framework: https://diataxis.fr- Will Larson's Books (An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer): https://lethain.com- Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight🔗 FOLLOW CORBIN- GitHub: https://github.com/crutchcorn- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corbincrutchley- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/crutchcorn.dev- Twitch: https://twitch.tv/crutchcorn🎙️ FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE📸 Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senorsatscale📸 Dan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicudan📰 Newsletter: https://senorsatscale.substack.com💼 Dan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicudan🌐 Website: https://neciudan.dev#SoftwareEngineering #OpenSource #TanStack #TanStackForm #JavaScript #TypeScript #ReactJS #Angular #Vue #FrameworkAgnostic #GitHubStar #VPofEngineering #EngineeringLeadership #TechLeadership #MentalHealthInTech #WebDevelopment #SenorsAtScale