On December 9th 2021, a critical vulnerability was disclosed for log4j, a library used for formatting logs in Java applications. This library is actively being used at Yext both in custom code and

Yext’s Crawler is a web crawler that enables scraping the unstructured web at scale. Together with Connectors, which convert the scraped data into structured entities, the Crawler enables brands to quickly load their

When talking about our work, it’s often convenient to have others review the code that you’re looking at. Sharing files is a convenient way to establish a shared context. However, the process of

Sentry is an essential part of a Yext engineer’s workflow. Whenever an error occurs in one of our 1,000+ microservices, Sentry helps our engineers understand what’s wrong, so they can make fixes quickly.

As software engineers, a major part of our job involves the breakdown of work into smaller units. We know that just as a complex organism must be composed of many individual cells, so

The Yext Command-Line Interface (CLI) allows a user to interact with Yext from the terminal.

Recently, we upgraded our Elasticsearch clusters from version 6 to version 7. This blog post describes how we did it.

The Problem: cgo, cross-compilation, and Bazel

World Engineering Day 2021

“So, like any Yexter would, we set out to make our own Redux!”

This is the last post in “The Making of Yext Pages”:

Yext’s Knowledge Graph stores all the public facts about our customers’ brands. Whether it be the date of a Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day or the address of a Qdoba restaurant, these

Today we’re open-sourcing github.com/yext/yerrors, a tiny Go error-handling library that is a drop-in replacement for golang.org/x/xerrors. It augments xerrors with Wrap and Mask functions that add to the stack trace without adding to

“My primary goal going into the summer was to learn as much as possible, and I feel like I accomplished that and more.”

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”