A few years ago, after reading this blog post by Jeff Atwood, we started handing out rubber ducks to new hires in Wayfair Engineering, to encourage self-reliance and good questions in mentoring situations. We have accumulated a lot of ducks over the years throughout the department, but our Search Technologies…
Q1: What’s the tech stack in a nutshell? A: PHP on Linux, and a few data backends, with continuous deployment at the pace of ~250 zero-downtime code pushes a day. Q2: Whoah, that’s a lot of code pushes! Break that down for me. A: What I’m actually counting there is…
Jack Wood and I, CIO and Chief Architect of Wayfair, spoke at Stackdive, at Wayfair’s on April 23. Here’s the matching blog post we published on the Stackdive site, now crossposted here. Jack and I are both long-time software guys who now spend somewhat less of our time thinking about what to build,…
Wayfair was founded in 2002 by engineers and is, at its heart, a technology company — one that’s focused on solving the difficult problems associated with selling a zillion products online (well, officially just over 4 million at the time this was written). The retail industry is not new –…
