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Multi-zone Cluster Management at Wayfair with Kubernetes

Multi-zone Cluster Management at Wayfair with Kubernetes

Alexander Didenko Alexander Didenko April 10th, 2020

Introduction Wayfair operates large data-centers in addition to leveraging the public cloud to provide infrastructure services. Over time, Wayfair Infrastructure teams chose to introduce multiple logical zones within a single datacenter to facilitate easier network maintenance and to split the single failure domain into multiple smaller ones. In this article,…

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The Importance of Covariates in Causal Inference: Shown in a Comparison of Two Methods

The Importance of Covariates in Causal Inference: Shown in a Comparison of Two Methods

Ramin Ghelichi Ramin Ghelichi March 18th, 2020

1. Introduction In the last century, scholars across a variety of fields have explored the mathematics of decision-making, or learning to intervene within a system. A challenge that relies on decision-making is fundamentally different, and more complex, than a classification problem. For example, designing a machine to distinguish a photo…

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Hoover: How to enable data scientists to stop managing ETL pipelines and get back to doing data science

Hoover: How to enable data scientists to stop managing ETL pipelines and get back to doing data science

Peter B. Golbus Peter B. Golbus February 11th, 2020

Part I: How to build tools that you can hand off to data scientists [feature of Hoover tool]   Summary Business moves fast and data science runways are long. What can we do to remove friction and iterate on data science models as quickly as possible? In this two-part blog……

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JavaScript Tests You Can Trust

JavaScript Tests You Can Trust

Arty Buldauskas Arty Buldauskas December 13th, 2019

Tests are an invaluable tool for me and my team, I consider them to be a key piece of my engineering toolbelt that I’ve built up over the years. At Wayfair, teams use tests to maintain code quality, as a test-driven development tool, and as a way to self-document new…

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Separating Corporate and Production Windows Domains

Separating Corporate and Production Windows Domains

Jeremy Fickler Jeremy Fickler July 30th, 2019 Dave DeSylvia Dave DeSylvia July 30th, 2019

Like many companies, Wayfair has leveraged Active Directory (AD) to centrally manage authentication as well as user and computer objects. Schema updates, Organization Unit structure changes, and Group Policy sprawl has led to a vast number of interdependencies and unnecessary complexity. Additionally, a large swath of our infrastructure is tied…

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A History of Integrator: Scaling Software Deployment Automation

A History of Integrator: Scaling Software Deployment Automation

DT Norris DT Norris June 17th, 2019

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) are industry standard, best practices for web-scale software engineering. Wayfair has practiced CI for well over a decade, although the ways in which we have performed it have changed over time. I’m here to share with you the system we have built to coordinate…

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How We Detect Anomalies in Our Product Recommendations Metrics

How We Detect Anomalies in Our Product Recommendations Metrics

Avatar Dario Marrocchelli April 11th, 2019

Introduction If you are a Wayfair customer looking for some wall art to decorate your house, chances are you will land on our wall art SuperBrowse page (see image below or link here). This page shows a grid of 48 products, all of which are pieces of wall art. Those……

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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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Conquering the First Mile in Transportation Engineering with the driveWay App

Conquering the First Mile in Transportation Engineering with the driveWay App

Christopher Paschal Christopher Paschal November 8th, 2018

When people think of Wayfair, they often think of the slick website, catchy TV ads, and personable customer service. They also obviously think of furniture. What they don’t think about, however, is how that furniture gets to the customer. Many people don’t realize that UPS and FedEx won’t bring a…

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Custom Upholstery: A Zillion Possibilities For All Things Couch

Custom Upholstery: A Zillion Possibilities For All Things Couch

Alex Cheng Alex Cheng October 8th, 2018 Jonathon Parsons Jonathon Parsons October 8th, 2018

The world of owning home furnishings is similar to owning clothes: Nobody wants to see someone else wearing the same dress. Wayfair has a zillion couches in many different colors, designs, and styles to choose from, and we expanded that reach even further when we created our Custom Upholstery Experience….

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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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