Introduction Wayfair sells products in the USA (wayfair.com), Canada (wayfair.ca), UK (wayfair.co.uk), and Germany (wayfair.de), and works with manufacturers from several countries. Consequently, business is being conducted in many languages. When product data is submitted by our suppliers in a different language than the market where the product is sold,…
Greetings Wayfair Engineering Enthusiasts: old, new, and returned. We’re gathered today (virtually) to collect a story from Wayfair’s history. I’m Gary White, volunteering historian, frequent worker. I’m going to share with you all the journey we took as an organization to adopt Continuous Integration. This is part one of two….
Hackathons at Wayfair Hackathons usually give people an opportunity to play with some unique ideas, advanced technologies, and even start diving into completely new areas which are small beginnings of big new initiatives. For example, Wayfair is one of the industry leaders in 3D commerce today thanks to what started…
Background Today, Wayfair uses SQL Server to store our customer data. We have a sharded architecture in place which is made up of many shards spread across multiple datacenters located throughout the US and Europe. Over the past few years, we have been pushing the limits of this infrastructure, causing…
Augmented reality (AR) is most well known for its use in mobile games, which encourage users to find virtual objects hidden in the world around them. At Wayfair, we leverage AR beyond pure entertainment to provide value for our shoppers. AR lets shoppers answer important questions like, “Will this item…
The Python Platform Team at Wayfair maintains a collection of base Docker images used by all deployed Python applications. Maintaining these base images provides us with the ability to: Standardize our environment (all of our images are based on CentOS) Simplify deployment for application developers (images ship pre-configured to connect…
Introduction Dependency injection has always been a hot topic for debate. At Wayfair, we have always chosen the simpler approach: passing the parameters right into the initializer. While this approach was easy to follow, scalability became a concern once the app started growing to a complicated machinery. Some examples picked…
Catchpoint is running an event today, called “WebPerf on Location Boston”, part of a series of such events in different cities. It starts at 2, and our very own Jack Wood, Wayfair CIO, is speaking at 3:30. Details and the link to register are here. It’s at Battery Ventures in…
Wayfair recently deployed Steelhead WAN optimizers in our network. We were unsatisfied with the 3 (2.5?) main suggested methods of deployment from Riverbed. So we designed our own deployment. But first, the vendor suggested methods: Physical In-Path – Physically puts the device in-line with your traffic, easy deployment, but if…
Wayfair was invited to be a sponsor at this year’s Beanpot Hackathon (link: http://www.hackbeanpot.com/), held last week at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge. The concept of a hackathon is so closely related to our core values, that we jumped at the opportunity to participate. Wylie Conlon, along with others…
Last winter we were discussing all of our upcoming projects, and what they would require for new hardware in the datacenter. Then we took a look at the space we had in our cage space at our main datacenter. Turns out, we didn’t have enough space, and the facility wouldn’t…
