Hackathons at Wayfair Hackathons usually give people an opportunity to play with some unique ideas, advanced technologies, and even start diving into completely new areas which are small beginnings of big new initiatives. For example, Wayfair is one of the industry leaders in 3D commerce today thanks to what started…
Background Today, Wayfair uses SQL Server to store our customer data. We have a sharded architecture in place which is made up of many shards spread across multiple datacenters located throughout the US and Europe. Over the past few years, we have been pushing the limits of this infrastructure, causing…
The online retailing market is very competitive and demanding, so you need to deliver new features/functionalities to your customers as quickly as possible. In these realities, every wasted minute can cost you thousands of dollars. At Wayfair, we have dozens of different tools/applications (internal and external) and more than a…
Bernie Miles, Head of Engineering, and Darach Ennis, Principal Engineer, discuss the role of principal engineer at Wayfair as well as the interesting challenges that accompany the position. 00:00 Intros 00:44 Why did Darach join Wayfair? 01:26 How would you describe event processing at Wayfair and why does Wayfair have…
About the Waystation App Before we dive in, a little context about our app. The Waystation App supports internal business teams at Wayfair during trade-shows, in which they get to meet dozens of partners and potential partners a day to discuss strategy and business goals. Our users needed to have…
The challenges of creating dynamic, global Supply Chain systems for hundreds of thousands of small and large parcel items is not for everybody! In this video, Füsun Wehrmann explains her story discovering Wayfair and diving into the world of Supply Chain. She explains the challenges her team faces and where…
In the last decade, Wayfair relied heavily on its homegrown ticketing system for its Engineering, Product, and Operational needs. Starting Q1 2020, Wayfair decided to standardize on Projecthub (Atlassian Jira) thus enabling a range of powerful features, all unified under one single platform. Containerized Jira environment is a relatively fresh…
Augmented reality (AR) is most well known for its use in mobile games, which encourage users to find virtual objects hidden in the world around them. At Wayfair, we leverage AR beyond pure entertainment to provide value for our shoppers. AR lets shoppers answer important questions like, “Will this item…
The Python Platform Team at Wayfair maintains a collection of base Docker images used by all deployed Python applications. Maintaining these base images provides us with the ability to: Standardize our environment (all of our images are based on CentOS) Simplify deployment for application developers (images ship pre-configured to connect…
‘First impressions matter’. While the above statement holds true for the very many aspects of life, it applies to E-commerce platforms as well. Be it an accent chair designed for a neomodern apartment in Manhattan, New York or a double-hanging hammock styled for the patio facing a lush green backyard…
In this article, we will take you on a journey of integrating and leveraging LinkedIn’s Brooklin platform as a mirroring technology to replace Kafka Mirror Makers (KMM). We will explain how we transitioned from configuring, operating, and maintaining 212 distinct Kafka Mirror Maker clusters to only 14 Brooklin clusters to…
