Video sponsored by Rangle.io (https://rangle.io) Traditionally, we've built web apps with little more than a few files scattered around the disk. Then came development servers, and transpilers, and assemblers, and everything was a mess of plugins. This talk walks you through what a build system is, how it helps you organize your software development flow, and what properties to look for in a good build system. About Martin Probst Martin is a software engineer at Google, working on TypeScript at Google. He holds a MSc in Software Engineering from HPI in Potsdam, Germany. Before joining the Angular team at Google, he worked at a database startup in the Netherlands, at EMC, at SAP, and as a freelancer. In his free time, he likes to cook and sail, not necessarily at the same time.