Martijn Laarman
Elastic
Distributed Docs: How We Slashed Build Times and Focused on LLM-Ready Content Generation
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Hear why we recently spent a year transforming our documentation system. We moved from a monolithic build process to a distributed model, cutting our build time from 3.5 hours to just 3 minutes. By pre-building linkable resource maps and integrating isolated content sources, we’ve streamlined workflows and made documentation more scalable. Our tooling now automatically generates LLM-ready content—like consumable text and embeddings—sitting in the background and getting out of the way, allowing engineering teams to focus on writing great content for wider consumption.
SPEAKER
Martijn is a Principal Software Engineer at Elastic.
Martijn has been a Tech Lead for over 20 years, the last 12 of them at Elastic where he's led teams across .NET, Clients, and APM. A common thread: developer-facing tooling, which also led him to the EditorConfig board. These days he leads the documentation engineering team, building Elastic Docs V3: a fully distributed documentation system for a truly distributed company.
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