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Building a Subscribe Feature
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Magic Release Notes
Just merge your PRs without worrying about release notes. Let GitHub Actions do the work for you by creating a Draft Release and then push to production by clicking a button and get notified on Slack.
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Speaking at Tech Conferences - How to get started
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Crack the Tech Interview
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🎙️ Latest Podcast Episodes
Explore conversations with senior engineers about scaling applications, teams, and careers.
Episode 21
35 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Daishi Kato, the author and maintainer of Zustand, Jotai, and Valtio — three of the most widely used state management libraries in modern React. Daishi has been building modern open source tools for nearly a decade, balancing simplicity with scalability. We dive deep into the philosophy behind each library, how they differ from Redux and MobX, the evolution of the atom concept, and Daishi's latest project: Waku, a framework built around React Server Components.
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Episode 20
56 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Vlad Khononov, software architect, keynote speaker, and author of Learning Domain-Driven Design and Balancing Coupling in Software Design. Vlad has spent over two decades helping teams untangle legacy systems, rebuild failing architectures, and bring clarity to messy business domains. This conversation cuts through the hype around DDD and microservices, focusing on the mechanics of bounded contexts, coupling, business alignment, and architectural evolution.
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Episode 19
53 minutes
Seniors @ Scale host Neciu Dan is joined by Bramus Van Damme, Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. As a leading voice in CSS and Web UI, Bramus dives into the future of the web, breaking down the mechanics, performance, and cross-browser status of transformative new features like View Transitions, Scroll-Driven Animations, Anchor Positioning, and Custom CSS Functions. He offers a rare look into the inner workings of Chrome DevRel, the standardization process through the CSS Working Group, and how the multi-browser 'Interop' effort is accelerating web development.
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Episode 18
57 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Liran Tal, Director of Developer Advocacy at Snyk and GitHub Star, to unpack NPM malware, maintainer compromise, MCP attacks, toxic flows, and why AI-generated code is statistically insecure without the right guardrails. Liran shares real incidents from the Node and open source ecosystem, how Snyk and tools like NPQ help developers build safer workflows, and why security at scale starts with developers, not firewalls.
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