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🎙️ Latest Podcast Episodes

Explore conversations with senior engineers about scaling applications, teams, and careers.

Security at Scale – With Liran Tal (Snyk)
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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Micro-Frontends at Scale (Part 2) – With Luca Mezzalira (AWS)
Episode 17
1 hour 10 minutes

Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Luca Mezzalira, Principal Serverless Specialist at AWS and author of *Building Micro-Frontends*, to unpack how he helped scale DAZN’s frontend from 2 developers to 500 engineers across 40 devices. Luca shares the origin of micro-frontends, how to build stable application shells, implement zero global state, use guardrails for bundle budgets, and manage migrations at scale through edge routing and team autonomy.

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Design Systems at Scale – With Stefano Magni (Preply)
Episode 16
1 hour 4 minutes

Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Stefano Magni, Senior Front-End Engineer and Tech Lead at Preply, to unpack what it takes to build and measure a design system for a global learning platform. From managing technical debt and accessibility to driving a culture of public work and data-driven engineering, Stefano shares lessons from 15+ years in frontend development.

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Reliability at Scale – With Bruno Paulino (N26)
Episode 15
1 hour 7 minutes

Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Bruno Paulino, Tech Lead at N26, to explore what reliability really means in FinTech. From server-driven UIs and CI/CD pipelines to AI-assisted customer support and strict compliance, Bruno shares how N26 balances speed, safety, and developer experience to keep millions of users online.

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