Scaling Systems and Teams Together

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Explains how Front scaled its Node.js platform while also reorganizing team ownership, collaboration, and workflows; covers practical lessons learned, mistakes made, and changes they would make now. Focuses on both technical and organizational approaches to grow systems and engineering teams together.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 1:50What is Front and its platform
3. 7:33Growth tax in teams
4. 11:10Cognitive overload and burnout
5. 15:22Paving the technical path
6. 21:22Four keys to frictionless scaling
7. 25:19Q&A

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