September 29, 2022 — Presentation by Hardik Gupta

Switch from Write Heavy System to Read Heavy System

In this talk, Hardik Gupta will talk about how he shifted from his previous job of write heavy systems to read heavy systems. Hardik will discuss how he handled the situation and the changes that occurred. He will also tackle the solution of system design problems based on multiple factors, whether it is a read heavy system or write heavy system and how it affects the user path.

Speaker: Hardik Gupta

Hardik Gupta is originally from Hisar, India and has been working as a software engineer for more than four and a half years. He has a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics as well as a Master of Science(with honors) in Economics. He has been at Yelp for more than one and a half years on the Search Quality team. Throughout his career, he had worked on both system side projects as well as business or consumer facing requirements. He enjoys getting his hands dirty on projects across all domains whether it's database related, building high-throughput pipelines, or microservices creation/ integration. After work, he spends most of his time on sports like badminton, bouldering, cricket and tennis.

Moderator: Ani Heung

Ani is a technical recruiter at Yelp - she has been on the team for eight years, and is always focused on bringing the most talented and teamwork oriented folks to join the Engineering Org at Yelp. Day to day, she loves sharing jokes with her team and getting to know other Yelpers, especially through the Yelp Parents employee resource group. Most of her free time goes to raising her kids (ages 1, 4, and 5) and exploring the many playgrounds, parks, and beaches around San Francisco.

About Yelping From Home:

Yelp’s mission is to connect people with great local businesses, and two of the teams working behind the scenes to make that happen are our five star engineering and product teams.

Playing an active role in our community is a value that we have strongly prioritized over the years. Typically we would invite you to come to Yelp’s HQ to network, grab a slice of ‘za, and learn about the technology and culture behind Yelp. With stay-at-home orders across the globe, Yelp (like many of you) has had no choice but to adapt to these changes. We understand that this is a strange and challenging time for many, so we’d like to invite you to join us as we navigate this new normal for the tech community together.

To stay connected, create space for folks to collaborate and share some of the things Yelp has been working on, we are launching our very own virtual tech talk series. This series of talks will feature Yelp employees from engineering and product share their stories about career development, technical skills and workplace challenges in a well-distributed environment.