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Design platform contains ~15,000 files and over half a million lines of code, growing ~5,000 lines/week with 10,000 tests and dozens of releases weekly, and builds fall from hours to about seven minutes while bootstrapping drops from 18 minutes to 10–20 seconds. A two-person build-systems team ships package-centric rules via bolt and automated publishing with bolt releases, and serial PR merging and CI with land kid, enforcing single-version compatibility and continuous delivery across many product teams.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:09Why tools matter
- 3:56Design system at web scale
- 6:03Tools for the toolchain
- 8:06Bolt as package manager
- 9:28Automating releases with Bolt
- 10:10Kid for safe PR merging
- 11:14Unifying tools across products
- 12:21Open source infrastructure
- 14:29Aligning tools with strategy
- 15:58Overcoming NIH syndrome
- 17:23Closing thoughts
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