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Micro frontends Microservices Microbreweries

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One of my favorite podcasts is Frontend Happy Hour.

In this episode, Jem Young and Ryan Burgess talk to Ruben Casas about Micro frontends which I've heard about but never understood^[1].

If you've ever gotten lost on the definition of what a micro frontend is, here's a clip from the show where Ruben breaks it down.

Still working on grokking Microservices. ↩︎

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