Yext is primarily a Java shop—aside from a smattering of Go, all of our backend systems are written in Java. For a long time we used Eclipse, which was the standard IDE at

Maybe you’re writing a brand new class, or perhaps you’re staring at a thousand line file and wondering - what should I test? The answer is actually simple - you should test the

It’s September, which means it’s time for campus recruiting. We’d love for you to drop by and talk to us!

At Yext we are moving more of our hybrid on-premise / cloud workload to containers orchestrated with Kubernetes, from a home-grown job management system using un-sandboxed Linux processes.

Pure functions are one of the central concepts in functional programming—they’re the building blocks for several complex and powerful ideas. However, pure functions are also incredibly useful when used outside of a functional

One of our oldest interview questions is int to string, where we ask candidates to, well, convert an int to the corresponding string. Back when I wrote a series on technical interviews, I

Debugging’s a critical skill that every software engineer needs to learn. However, it’s something that’s rarely taught. For many engineers, you kind of just have to figure it out (often through trial and

When creating alerts, there are many factors to consider. What metric will be alerted on? At what point do you trigger an alert? How long should the metric be outside of the alerting

Developing a set of microservices applications can be complicated. A lot of attention is paid (rightly) to the deployment process, but getting your development workflow right can be just as important in the

Previously, Nick discussed his adventures through our Learning is Good program in his Strange Loop Scoop. This year, a handful of us went to Velocity, a conference centered around systems engineering and building

Last year, I wrote a post about how we were planning on replacing our aging location data search system (ProfileSearchServer v1) with a updated version that used Elasticsearch as a backend.

At Yext we strive to have comprehensive test coverage for all our customer facing interfaces to protect against regressions. The way we test has evolved greatly from when there was essentially one team

At Yext, we’ve been using Go for server-side applications for some time, and over the past year we’ve been exploring using Go for building command-line tools as well. In this post, we’ll be