Chats with Kent C. Dodds

Zackary Jackson joins Kent to discuss his upcoming talk at Epic Web Conf, Epic Federation: Scaling Web Infrastructure. As an expert in large-scale web architecture, Zack has helped build critical tools like Module Federation and RSPack, both of which power ByteDance’s global infrastructure.

In this conversation, Kent and Zack cover:

• The challenges of managing thousands of developers and repos across multiple teams.
• Why ByteDance chose to build its own bundler in Rust instead of adopting an existing solution.
• The impact of slow build times on product velocity and how tooling improvements significantly reduce development friction.
• The role of Module Federation in solving organizational scale problems, allowing teams to ship independently.
• How AI-powered tools are shaping the next generation of developer workflows.

Zack also shares his thoughts on why meeting open-source maintainers and industry leaders in person can unlock collaboration opportunities that aren’t as easily accessible online.

Watch this episode.

Meet Zackary at Epic Web Conf.

Guest: Zackary Jackson

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Host: Kent C. Dodds

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