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Why We Open-Sourced Our Panel Layout

Why We Open-Sourced Our Panel Layout

Milivoje Kojadinovic Milivoje Kojadinovic September 29th, 2020

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…

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How and Why We Contributed to MvRx

How and Why We Contributed to MvRx

Milivoje Kojadinovic Milivoje Kojadinovic October 17th, 2019

State machines – they’ve been around for a long time in computer science, but are perhaps forgotten in the last few decades, at least in mobile apps. My team at Wayfair chose to revisit state machines and give them a try in our production app. This is how we came…

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Open-Sourcing Our Internal Frontend Education Platform – Awesome Learning

Open-Sourcing Our Internal Frontend Education Platform – Awesome Learning

Evan Cooper Evan Cooper September 23rd, 2019

When you walk into a company like Wayfair, it can feel overwhelming. There are more than 2,300 engineers across the organization. Every person you talk to seems smarter than the last. Staff engineers are responsible for famous open source libraries and massive technical achievements. It can definitely be a scary…

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Getting The Most Out of XML and Exploring Anko Layouts for Android

Getting The Most Out of XML and Exploring Anko Layouts for Android

Milivoje Kojadinovic Milivoje Kojadinovic June 11th, 2019

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) – are they worth the hype? In a recent investigation, our Berlin-based Android Team were looking to further optimize Wayfair’s Android app, and were looking around for options. With the inconvenience of creating a UI in XML, and the appeal of a language that focuses on a…

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Open Tracing for iOS: A Performance Tool for Everyone

Open Tracing for iOS: A Performance Tool for Everyone

Simon-Pierre Roy Simon-Pierre Roy May 10th, 2019 Avatar Aaron Sky May 10th, 2019 Peter Tomaselli Peter Tomaselli May 10th, 2019

The App Platforms Team at Wayfair, empowering a team of more than 60 mobile developers with efficient tooling and processes, has been actively looking at the performance of it’s mobile offerings, turning this into more focused work in the past few months. We wanted to involve as many of the…

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Project Argo Goes Open Source: On-Prem Automation and Our Path to a Hybrid Environment

Project Argo Goes Open Source: On-Prem Automation and Our Path to a Hybrid Environment

Jeff Dillon Jeff Dillon December 19th, 2018 Brendan McGarry Brendan McGarry December 19th, 2018

Wayfair’s software engineering history demonstrates a common theme throughout its time: It moves fast and is a core trait of our business. To create and support the right foundations, we need our infrastructure to move faster than our ideas, and this is especially true for our hybrid environment objectives in…

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Your One-Stop Shop For Everything React Boston 2018

Your One-Stop Shop For Everything React Boston 2018

Avatar Rebekah Heacock Jones November 27th, 2018 Evan Cooper Evan Cooper November 27th, 2018

In September, Wayfair hosted React Boston 2018, two full days of augmented reality demos, beautiful and surprising web animations, DOM-related horror stories (with mostly happy endings), component kits, game shows, Forbidden Planet references, and more, all made possible by ReactJS. This year picked up on several of the themes introduced…

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Pylift: A Fast Python Package for Uplift Modeling

Pylift: A Fast Python Package for Uplift Modeling

Robert Yi Robert Yi October 17th, 2018

  Uplift models seek to predict the incremental value attained in response to a treatment. For example, if we want to know the value of showing an advertisement to someone, typical response models will only tell us that a person is likely to purchase after being given an advertisement, though……

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Reflecting on Wayfair’s Conversion to React and Redux: Seven Months Later

Reflecting on Wayfair’s Conversion to React and Redux: Seven Months Later

Connor MacDonald Connor MacDonald September 28th, 2018

It’s been seven months since Dan Uhl reflected on our conversion to React and Redux at Wayfair. The article was written right after the Product Detail Page (or PDP – you might know it as the page you see when you’re ready to purchase a product here at Wayfair) was…

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Client-side Performance Monitoring with InfluxDB

Client-side Performance Monitoring with InfluxDB

Mike Bell Mike Bell July 16th, 2018

Accurate performance monitoring is crucial for Wayfair’s Storefront Engineering team. Each day we deploy hundreds of code changes to the web application for our customer-facing websites, and each change has the potential to impact performance for better or worse. For this reason, we carefully monitor KPIs such as page load…

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Blocking IO in Gunicorn Gevent Workers

Blocking IO in Gunicorn Gevent Workers

Alexander Truslow Alexander Truslow July 9th, 2018

As part of the Python Platform Team here at Wayfair, I help support Wayfair’s 100+ Python engineers and data scientists. We’re the go-to team when it comes to better leveraging Python within the Wayfair Tech ecosystem. During some recent project work, we recently investigated a production issue with a Flask…

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