Here at Wayfair, we believe complexity theory to be valuable and quite helpful in terms of data center builds. In particular, there are certain ways we can use this theorem to prevent outages in the future. There will forever be unpredictable events – how do we assess their… Read more
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… Read more
Last weekend was the inaugural run of the Northeast PHP Conference in Boston. Wayfair was a gold sponsor, so we bought t-shirts, paid for apps and beer at the Saturday night event, and also sent about 15 engineers to the event. I gave a talk on High Performance… Read more
Python is my favorite computer language for data science, but it is a poorly standardized beast when it comes to packaging, deployment, web operations, etc. There are plenty of people who are deploying Python code to the web effectively, but especially in the data science area, there is no equivalent……
If you haven’t heard about the ESC Conference yet, you should check it out! It’s a new conference this year, giving us all another place to congregate and discuss running code and systems at scale. If you’ve been to a devopsdays conference before then you will… Read more
