Wayfair has over nine million unique items in its catalog, and tens of thousands of new ones are added every day. These products come from 8,000 different suppliers who sometimes sell the exact same products — two completely unrelated suppliers could be buying the exact same area rug from a…
Earlier this month, the Pricing Algorithms team had a Community Service Hack Day here at our office, dedicating an afternoon to work on simple tools that could be used as part of any project. The day was an opportunity to fill any knowledge gaps in how our team overcomes common…
As Wayfair has grown and matured its software development and data center operations over the past decade, and particularly over the last five years, we have embraced the principle of providing maximum visibility into our processes and systems. The result is a very large logging and time series infrastructure built…
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…
At Wayfair, technology and data expertise enable data scientists to transform new web datasets into intelligent machine algorithms that re-imagine how traditional commerce works. In this post, we introduce how visual tools like Violin Plots amplify our data acumen to unlock deep insights. The savvy data scientist recognizes the value…
Statsdcc is a Statsd-compatible high performance multi-threaded network daemon written in C++. It aggregates stats and sends the results to backends, especially Graphite. We are proud to announce that we are opensourcing it today. Check out the code at https://github.com/wayfair/statsdcc. At Wayfair we’re big believers in “measure anything, measure everything,” as…
I can’t believe I’m writing a post about vim and emacs in the year 2015! But our very own Aaron Bieber just spoke at the vim meetup on how he’s been secretly using emacs all the time for a few months, and is now coming out of the closet as…
