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…
Introduction Dependency injection has always been a hot topic for debate. At Wayfair, we have always chosen the simpler approach: passing the parameters right into the initializer. While this approach was easy to follow, scalability became a concern once the app started growing to a complicated machinery. Some examples picked…
If you work in software, this might sound familiar to you: an engineering team has been tasked with designing and building a large, highly visible product or system from the ground up. The team is mostly made up of newer engineers with less institutional knowledge, and the tech lead doesn’t…
Have you ever wanted to be able to simply switch between Internet Service Providers (ISP) dynamically based on network path reliability? Many network engineers will answer yes. This is a common ask in environments of any size. At Wayfair, we rely heavily on the resilience and reliability of our Internet…
Many approaches to ranking a list of products or search results are based on assigning a score to each item and sorting in descending order—in other words, greedy sorting approaches. In e-commerce, predictive models place the product that the customer is most likely to be interested in at the top,……
