Migrating to micro-frontends with Boris Besemer from @VercelHQ

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hear how modern teams are using Verscell's microrend architecture to move faster, reduce coordination overhead, and deploy with confidence. Stay tuned. Welcome everyone to another episode of Microphone Dance in the Trenches. Uh today we're going to talk about a topic that I personally like a lot, modernization. And specifically obviously because it's a microphone podcast, we're going to talk about uh microtront tense and how you modernize front end leveraging microtrontans. Uh

in previous episodes we have uh a few people that uh uh told us their story but this time we are trying to move the needle and see more holistically what could be some patterns that we have seen in the trenches that might work. And in order to uh talk about this uh modernization topic that is quite key I would say uh nowadays also spec es especially with in the new world of generative AI and all these things that could potentially even accelerate uh this journey. I have with me uh Boris

Desamer that is a senior platform architect uh in Burcell and I think it's going to be an epic episode because uh with Boris we're going to explore all the different techniques that are available there but moreover we also see what Versal is offering for this specific uh uh task that is the modernization front. So without further ado Boris welcome to the episode. >> Thank you Luka very happy to be here. So obviously uh I give just an elevator pitch of what you

do in versel with your title but tell us a bit more uh who you are what you're doing in Versell even if you have like specific passions outside work stuff like that >> yeah definitely so hi everyone I'm Boris Bmer um uh like Luca said I'm a senior platform architect at forcell um so what that actually means is that I help our customers to get the best out of forcell and not just for sale also nextjs AI SDK uh the workflow dev kit. Pretty much everything that we offer uh I help our customers to get the best out of it and

also help our uh engineering teams to uh find issues that our customers have and improve the product as well. >> I I like that. I know how tricky they are uh because I'm doing something similar also in AWS. So I I know very well the problem. Uh okay. So I think we can kick off with uh the main misconception that I have seen in the past I would say four or five years uh when I started to see the raise of microphone hands uh across the world that is around uh modernization. So in

the past I can tell you my experience in the past I remember when I had to do a modernization or changing drastically a UI of web application or desktop application mobile application doesn't matter the um the goal for me was okay we want to we have all this friction that is happening in the trenches so we want to remove that we think that we found a way to do this uh microphone does or not then I have to go to the CTO and I say uh listen uh I prepare a plan these are 18 months 24 months three