Design systems at scale with Szymon Chudy
New episode of Señors @ Scale is out. Szymon Chudy is a Software Engineer on Netflix's Hawkins design system team.
We discuss where the source of truth lives, Figma or code, how you ship a breaking change to 2,000+ apps that are free to walk away from you, what on-call looks like for a design system, and whether the Netflix culture from No Rules Rules holds up from the inside.
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Community reads
Infrastructure
How we built Git storage for millions of Netlify projects by Philippe Serhal — how do you run Git on top of S3 for millions of projects without ever corrupting a ref?
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users by OpenAI — 70 million requests a second, and the whole thing started as a Python library talking to one database.
AI and agents
Inside Chats: How Lovable's Agents Work Together by Rouzbeh Delavari — half a billion events a day flow through an append-only log modelled on Git, so how do the agents on top of it talk to each other?
Engineering leadership
the senior engineer death spiral by Sunil Pai — his friend landed a big senior role and wanted to know how to do 80-hour weeks without burning out (This is a must read).
Design
A Simple Guide to Calm UI by Max Schmitt — add an item to both lists on the page, then work out why the second one feels so much calmer.
Book recommendation
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as its own medium, and he wrote this book as a comic. It picks apart how panels and the gaps between them carry meaning to the reader, which is the same problem you have every time you design an interface.
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Conferences
CityJS Athens
CityJS lands in Athens this October.
My link takes 10% off the ticket price for you.
React Day Berlin
React Day Berlin takes over Kosmos on December 4.
Register through my badge and the remote ticket is free, which normally costs €90 at the early bird rate. You get the HD stream and the free remote workshops, and the recordings afterwards.
Register with my badge and watch for free
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