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Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda
10 years of driving developer productivity at Yelp | Kent Wills (Yelp)
Mar 26, 2024
Kent Wills, Director of Engineering at Yelp, discusses the evolution of developer productivity efforts. Topics include forming the team, managing code ownership in a monolith, building a design system, standardization, LLM implementation, and demonstrating the value of their work.
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- Yelp focused on standardization while allowing innovation, transitioning from a monolithic structure to separate services.
- Building a metrics platform and utilizing LLM tools enhanced support functions and streamlined service migrations at Yelp.
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Origin of Developer Productivity Group at Yelp
The developer productivity group at Yelp started due to inspiration from Twitter's scaling methods where they aimed for standardization while allowing innovation. Initially focused on getting out of the monolith, they gradually built towards creating a design system team to manage common styles and components efficiently.
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