Migrating MySQL Data MySQL is a core technology here at Yext, and since we’ve grown from a scrappy roomful of engineers to a mid-sized company, we’ve had to peel various subsets of data from our original
jQuery: The Good Parts In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Douglas Crockford explains that JavaScript, like most languages, contains a mix of good parts and bad ones. Logically, he identifies that superior code adopts the language’s strengths and
Why Async? At the recent Yext Offsite, I gave a deep-dive on CompletableFutures and their ability to maintain the semantics of an algorithm while ‘mixing in’ asynchrony. This makes the transition from sync to async
Yext's Road to Continuous Delivery As we grow both our client base and our product line-up, the stability of our platform becomes more and more important. But as we grow our engineering team, more frequent commits add greater
Yext Spring 2016 Engineering Offsite The Yext Engineering team just got back from our Spring 2016 offsite in Puerto Rico. We stayed at the El Conquistador resort for a few days of technical learning and team bonding. It
Emulating Google Play Services on old Android emulators At Yext, pretty much everything that I do is related to location. After all, we help people go places, and to do that I need to know where those places are. Unsurprisingly, my
Technical Interviews, Part 3: Communication Welcome back for the third and final part of our technical interview series! In case you missed the earlier parts, go check out part 1 on knowledge and part 2 on coding.
Technical Interviews, Part 2: Coding Last week we had the first post in our technical interview series, where we covered the knowledge you need to succeed in technical interviews. Today, we’ll be looking at the coding portion of
Ajax's Odyssey Like the Greek hero Ajax, there are many triumphs and failures that our AJAX requests incur at Yext. Because a single AJAX call contains many diverse parts, it can be difficult to debug.
Technical Interviews, Part 1: Knowledge Technical interviews can be daunting, especially if you’re new to the process. I remember being flustered in my first few interviews—I had no idea what to expect and I sometimes didn’t understand what
Finding your Company Fit I started working full-time at Yext about six months ago – right after I graduated from college. In 2014, I interned at Yext, and in the years before that, I interned at two
It's Elastic, boogie woogie woogie Here at Yext, we make it easy for our customers to manage their location data. A very important aspect of this is the ability to quickly and powerfully search this data.
Building A Phone Call System: Play + Twilio Yext has recently become the sole provider of Yahoo free basic listings. This transition involves verifying Yahoo listings for certain customers. One verification option is that customers choose to receive a phone call
Comparing Type Checks in JavaScript As an untyped language, JavaScript necessitates dynamic type checking. To strictly enforce type for every variable would hamper much of the language’s power, but when necessary, understanding the different ways to check type
