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excerpt: Alex and Brittney sit down with Debbie O'Brien to talk about bit (bit.dev). We dive deep into how you can use bit to compose your application one bit at a time.
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start: November 10, 2021
title: Composing Modern Applications with Bit
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### Questions

1. What exactly is Bit?
2. What does Bit do at build time, what process does it take over?
   1. Is it similar to Storybook?
3. Are there specific frameworks that work with Bit?
4. What tooling is needed to use Bit?
5. What are the benefits of Bit Cloud?
6. How does versioning work, is it automatically bumped?
