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Pioneering Apollo at GitLab
- Natalia introduced Apollo client and GraphQL on GitLab's frontend as the first full implementation.
- This proved frontend complexity was enough to justify staff engineering roles in that area.
Scale Knowledge Through Documentation
- Involve your whole team in adopting new tech and document everything.
- Improve documentation iteratively based on team feedback and questions for scaling knowledge.
Staff Engineers Drive Architecture
- Staff engineers look beyond feature implementation to architecture and technical debt cleanup.
- They identify problematic areas and plan improvements, collaborating with managers for prioritization.