The Importance of Productivity and Building Abundances and Investing

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Airbnb had to break up its monolith. Part of what had happened was we built really great tooling that made it easy for any team to set up a new service. And so without very strong guidance or at least alignment across engineering on when do you build a new service and how what is the relationship between services? That's a good question. I don't think there's one right answer.

In this episode, Willie Yao, Head of Infrastructure at Notion and former Head of Developer Infrastructure at Airbnb, provides a unique perspective on how Developer Experience teams work in hypergrowth companies. He shares how Airbnb developed a customer-first mindset internally, what it took to get Airbnb’s leadership invested in that effort, and how he’s approaching DevEx at Notion today.