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Building Micro-Frontends: Distributed Systems for the Frontend

Building Micro-Frontends: Distributed Systems for the Frontend

Is your frontend slowing down innovation and complicating team collaboration? Consider micro-frontends!

2025

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Jun 10

The Micro-Frontend Canvas: a practical tool for better boundaries

Most teams come to micro-frontends with the same assumption: our problem is technical. We need better tooling, faster deployments…

The Micro-Frontend Canvas: a practical tool for better boundaries

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Jul 1

Ten years of micro-frontend decisions, condensed into a skill

An inexperienced developer asks their AI agent to build a micro-frontend. The agent does not ask who will own it, what business capability…

Ten years of micro-frontend decisions, condensed into a skill

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Apr 6

From T-Shape to Comb-Shape: how developer knowledge needs to evolve in the AI era

From t-shape to comb-shape

From T-Shape to Comb-Shape: how developer knowledge needs to evolve in the AI era

Luca Mezzalira

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Mar 25

Agents don’t know what good looks like. And that’s exactly the problem.

A reaction to the Neal Ford and Sam Newman fireside chat on agentic AI and software architecture

Agents don’t know what good looks like. And that’s exactly the problem.

Luca Mezzalira

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Dec 11, 2025

Global state in micro-frontends? No thanks!

If there is one architectural trap that consistently derails micro-frontend initiatives, it’s the temptation to introduce a global state…

Global state in micro-frontends? No thanks!

Luca Mezzalira

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Jun 24, 2025

How I use AI to set the right guardrails

Scaling micro-frontends sounds great on paper: modularity, autonomy, independent deployments. But once you’re past the excitement of the…

How I use AI to set the right guardrails

Luca Mezzalira

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Jun 23, 2025

A practical playbook for working with AI code assistants

Over the past 10 months, I’ve used AI assistants to speed up how I prototype, design, and reason about frontend systems. They’ve…

A practical playbook for working with AI code assistants

Luca Mezzalira

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May 14, 2025

Your monolith isn’t broken. But it’s slowing you down!

Before jumping into a migration, it’s crucial to be clear about why you’re considering micro-frontends in the first place.

Your monolith isn’t broken. But it’s slowing you down!

Luca Mezzalira

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Dec 17, 2024

The data recovery challenge in the cloud era

In today’s digital-first world, businesses are generating and storing data at an unprecedented scale. With the rise of cloud computing…

The data recovery challenge in the cloud era

Luca Mezzalira

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Oct 16, 2024

Instant recovery strategies for S3 and DynamoDB in the AI era.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the SHIFT conference organized by Commvault, and it was quite an experience. I wanted to…

Instant recovery strategies for S3 and DynamoDB in the AI era.

Luca Mezzalira

Luca Mezzalira

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Independent architect, Director of 50 cents media, O’Reilly Author, International Speaker, YouTuber, creator of Dear Architects and Token by token newsletters

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