Welcome to Syntax. Today we have Zach Jackson on the show to talk to us about Module Federation.

I just saw Zach like a week and a half ago at a conference.

He's the author of RSPack, which is the Rust-based bundler, has the whole same API as Webpack.

It's really neat. And just that one talk, which was 20 minutes long,

super short talk, blew my mind in terms of like all of the stuff he's working on. He works

at Bight Dance and was explaining BightDance's company, Tick-Tock and Cap Cut and all kinds

of other neat products, but just explaining the scale of the problems that he's solving. And it just, I just

walked away being like, I don't want to talk to this guy for like nine hours. But welcome, Zach.

Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thank you for having me. Give us the introduction of who you are and what you

do. I gave a pretty poor one there, but let's hear it from you.

Yeah, sure. So I'm an infrastructure architect at Bydance, so I work on the web infar team there.

I've been in open source space for, you know, past couple of years. So I'm probably more well known from that standpoint.

So a maintainer of Webpack.

I'm part of the core team for RSPAC.

And I'm the creator of Module Federation.

So that's the big highlights.

Awesome.

And that's specifically what we wanted to have you on today to talk about, which is what module

of Federation is, because it's one of those words that have been hearing, going around, and then

any time I talk to somebody at a conference that is from a very large company, I always find

that very interesting to like, how do you build stuff relatively fast when you have seven million

teams you know and in all these different builds and one little thing that you said during your

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