Next week, Wayfair Data Science will be at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City. We’re bringing data scientists and engineers from several different teams, plus a VR rig to try out the shopping experience of the future (come find us at booth 224!). We pride…
The Wayfair iOS app aims to have complete feature-parity with our website. This means that we need to support a variety of screen sizes and orientations in ways that — at least from an iOS frameworks point-of-view — are “custom”. To be specific, we need to support three distinctly different…
At Wayfair, we’re keen to research, innovate, and invest in new technologies whenever the opportunity arises. There are obvious advantages to this approach for our iOS teams in particular: It allows us to keep up to date with current developments and be prepared for potential API updates. This is particularly…
Kotlin… Developers are clamoring for it. Some are calling it the future of Android Development. Others are claiming it lacks the tooling to make it “production” ready. At Wayfair, we decided to give Kotlin a try and come to our own conclusions. Initially, we used it for our “debug” features….
Wayfair’s mobile architect, Jeff Ladino, is giving the second of a series of tech talks, on Wayfair’s mobile applications. The event will be held at Wayfair’s new offices, 4 Copley Place, on Tuesday, September 9th, from 6 pm to 7:30. Pizza will be served. Details on the talk, and free Eventbrite…
Wayfair’s mobile architect, Jeff Ladino, is giving the first of a series of tech talks, on Wayfair’s mobile applications. The event will be held at Wayfair’s new offices, 4 Copley Place, on August 5th, from 6 pm to 7:30. Pizza will be served. It should be a great talk, in…
