Micro-frontends can help organizations scale frontend development, but without the right foundations, they often lead to unnecessary complexity and performance issues. How can you implement them effectively while avoiding common pitfalls?
Having worked with hundreds of teams worldwide on micro-frontend architectures, I’ve seen what works—and what doesn’t—across different industries. In this session, I’ll share real-world insights and proven strategies to help you build successful, maintainable, and scalable frontend distributed systems.
You’ll learn:
- How to decide if micro-frontends are right for your organization
- The key architectural principles that drive successful implementations
- Common mistakes companies make and how to avoid them
Whether you’re considering micro-frontends or looking to refine your approach, this talk will provide actionable guidance backed by real-world experience.
Interview:
What is the focus of your work?
I’m a serverless specialist architect in AWS. I help customers design, build, and leverage AWS serverless services properly. In the past 4 years, I helped roughly 100 teams worldwide implementing micro-frontends using serverless but also without it.
What’s the motivation for your talk?
Considering I have the possibility to see so many teams and organisations moving towards micro-frontends, I gathered what worked and what not, and I decided to share it in a single talk covering the most common pitfalls I’ve seen in the trenches and how to overcome them.
Who is your talk for?
Developers and tech leaders who are thinking of using micro-frontends or who have a micro-frontends implementation in production but feel there is friction within teams and in what they have implemented so far.
What do you want someone to walk away with from your presentation?
The talk has very practical insights starting from the beginning and provides several heuristics to follow for properly designing a micro-frontends platform. Organizations need to understand that it is not just code that creates an application, but they need to look at the social-technical aspect of it.
What do you think is the next big disruption in software?
I’m investing time working with AI for serverless and micro-frontends, focusing primarily on developer experience and understanding how AI can help developers with their tasks. Probably a common answer, but I think the proper use of AI can augment our capabilities properly. And I say augment, not replace, because I don’t believe we are near the idea that you can substitute developers with AI.
What was one interesting thing that you learned from a previous QCon?
The content is super high quality, but the thing that stands out to me is the possibility to network with brilliant minds and well-known names in the industry: priceless!
Speaker
Luca Mezzalira
Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect @AWS, Author of “Building Micro-Frontends”, International Speaker
Luca Mezzalira is principal solutions architect at AWS, an international speaker, and an author. Over the past 20 years, he’s mastered software architectures from frontend to the cloud, providing the right solution for the context of the job at hand.
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Date
Wednesday Apr 9 / 03:55PM BST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
