June 24, 2021 by Soorya K. Pillai

Talk Summary: In this talk, I will go over Yelp’s schematized logging infrastructure and how it supports multiple client and server side platforms. This infrastructure uses Yelp’s data pipeline to log events. I'll also discuss how the event schemas are registered and used for publishing schematized events. Once these events are logged or published on the data pipeline, we will see how the events are forwarded to data stores for data analysis. After the data is available in a data store there are several interfaces which can be used to query this data. This talk will also describe how this infrastructure provides a unified ecosystem for experimentation and product analytics.

Speaker: Soorya K. Pillai, San Francisco

Soorya is an engineering manager for the Analytics Infrastructure Team at Yelp. She’s been with Yelp for 3.5 years now. She led Yelp's ERG Awesome Women in Engineering’s (AWE) Reads program for three years. Before Yelp, Soorya was an assistant professor for the Computer Applications Masters program at University of Mumbai. Because of her background in academics Soorya is passionate about creating effective training and onboarding materials for engineers.

Moderator: Joshua Keable, Phoenix

I joined Yelp in 2013 and moved through IT roles to my current role as IT Manager. Currently, I oversee the teams in PHX, and WDC. Yelp has been a great learning experience for me. I have grown in my technical, project management, and leadership skills with the opportunities given by my managers. I love working with my colleagues and am grateful for working in a company which has such a great culture and energy. I’ve never worked for a company that has this level of collaboration, it makes me strive to learn all I can daily from my peers.

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 Yelpers from engineering and product and will focus on themes such as career development, technical skills, workplace challenges and Yelp’s response to COVID-19.