Last week, President Obama awarded his Presidential Medals of Freedom. There were some incredible people on the list of recipients, and we salute them all. Most notably for us he recognized two women, Margaret Hamilton and Grace Hopper, who blazed a path in software development with their incredible breakthroughs, led the pack for……
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… Read more
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… Read more
Here’s our Frontline team at work, in our spiffy network operations center: Selling home goods on the internet isn’t rocket science, but if you actually wanted to send a couch to the moon, you’d want to plan for and monitor that from a room like this. If you……
Wayfair engineering will be out in force at Boston TechJam 2014, on Thursday, June 12, 2014, at Boston City Hall Plaza, starting at 4 pm. We’ll be in the middle row, one slot away from the beer tent, and we will have some fun… Read more
Over this past summer, Wayfair upgraded from Exchange 2007 to a new, highly available, Exchange 2010 email environment. With it brought many improvements, but with these enhancements came new methods for performing common tasks. One operation affected by the upgrade was the mailbox export process. To export a mailbox in……
A group of engineers from Wayfair will pause trying to make Halloween pictures in Graphite and stop looking for a ghost in the machine with Skyline this weekend to head over to the 8th reincarnation of BarCampBoston…. Read more
Overview There’s storm in Wayfair! And yes, the “a” article before the word “storm” is purposely not there. When referring to “storm” at Wayfair, we do not mean a conglomerate of barometric circumstances that lead to downpours from the skies and other natural phenomena (a storm); we mean… Read more
When our company’s co-founder encouraged all of our Engineering department to participate in the Google Glass Explorer contest, I thought about project ideas that could help people by using the unique features of this new augmented-reality technology. I remembered a project that some fellow students did during a robotics class……
Wayfair was invited to be a sponsor at this year’s Beanpot Hackathon (link: http://www.hackbeanpot.com/), held last week at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge. The concept of a hackathon is so closely related to our core values, that we jumped at the opportunity to participate. Wylie Conlon, along with… Read…
Some Background At Wayfair, we are working on a next generation of systems to power our business. The decade old systems that currently keep us running in stride have allowed Wayfair.com to vault from nothing to where it is today. But as with all systems, they have… Read more
