React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library maintained by Meta.

It was first released in 2013 and is now the most popular web framework.

Ilya Gurevich is a senior software engineer at the New York Times.

Last winter, his team set out to implement React 18 for the Times flagship core news site.

Ilya recently wrote a viral blog post about this decision and how the team tackled some

of the engineering challenges along the way.

Today, he joins the podcast with Gregor Van to talk about adopting React 18 to enhance the

performance of the New York Times website.

Gregor Vand is a security focused technologist and is the founder and CTO of MailPass.

Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering

companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile

at vand.hk.

Hi, Ilya. welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

Thank you, Gregor.

I'm happy to be here.

Yeah, so you are a senior software engineer at New York Times.

So we're going to be diving into kind of quite specific topic today of a React 18 upgrade

that you and your team went through fairly recently.

But it'd be great to just hear actually like what's taking you from before New York Times,

you know, up to New York Times in terms of your your software career.

Yeah.

So I graduated from Georgia Tech in Atlanta in 2016.

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