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The Visual Complements Model (ViCs): Complementary Product Recommendations From Visual Cues

The Visual Complements Model (ViCs): Complementary Product Recommendations From Visual Cues

Hantian Liu Hantian Liu March 16th, 2020

Introduction Creating a recommendation system for home decoration poses unique challenges: each customer has his/her own taste and would like to maintain a cohesive personal style across his/her home. We at Wayfair know that it is hard to describe that taste in words and then to search through huge product……

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Q&A with Sarah Carroll: Senior Software Engineer for Storefront Physical Stores 

Q&A with Sarah Carroll: Senior Software Engineer for Storefront Physical Stores 

Sarah Carroll Sarah Carroll February 20th, 2020

Meet Sarah What is your current role? Currently I am a Senior Software Engineer for the Storefront Physical Stores team What does your team do? How does it fit into the world of Wayfair? The Storefront Physical Stores team creates and maintains all of the software that runs our physical…

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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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Q&A with John Li: Engineering Manager of Design Services

Q&A with John Li: Engineering Manager of Design Services

John Li John Li January 24th, 2020

Meet John What is your current role? My official titles are Senior Android Engineer and Engineering Manager of Design Services.  My roles include:  Design Services Android Tech Lead  Services Android Architect Android Super League Lead Android Tech Talk Organizer Kotlin Conversion Captain App Performance Captain What does your team do?…

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Bayesian Product Ranking at Wayfair

Bayesian Product Ranking at Wayfair

David J. Harris David J. Harris January 20th, 2020 Tom Croonenborghs Tom Croonenborghs January 20th, 2020

Wayfair has a huge catalog with over 14 million items. Our site features a diverse array of products for people’s homes, with product categories ranging from “appliances” to “décor and pillows” to “outdoor storage sheds.” Some of these categories include hundreds of thousands of products; this broad offering ensures that……

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A Scientific Approach to Capacity Planning

A Scientific Approach to Capacity Planning

Jaishankar Padmanabhan Jaishankar Padmanabhan January 15th, 2020

Introduction At Wayfair, we have typically discussed scalability from an infrastructure perspective—for example, when considering how many servers to provision for an upcoming holiday season, our usual response has been to calculate based on customer volume projections from the marketing team. However, while this source of data is no doubt…

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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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ReCNet: Deep Learning based Cross-class Recommendations at Wayfair

ReCNet: Deep Learning based Cross-class Recommendations at Wayfair

Weiqi Weng Weiqi Weng December 12th, 2019

Introduction The main objective of our recommender systems is to narrow down Wayfair’s vast catalogue to assist customers in finding exactly the products they want. Most recommendation algorithms leverage a customer’s browsing history, which includes various types of interactions with products, such as clicks, add-to-cart actions, and orders. The diversity……

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Online to Offline: The Technical Backbone of Wayfair’s First Physical Store

Online to Offline: The Technical Backbone of Wayfair’s First Physical Store

Ruben Cagnie Ruben Cagnie December 5th, 2019

Wayfair has its traditions when it comes to business: It’s rooted in e-commerce through and through. Having been at Wayfair for more than three years with our iOS team, I was able to be part of many stages of growth and expansion, right up to my most recent challenge: Building…

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BERT Does Business: Implementing the BERT Model for Natural Language Processing at Wayfair

BERT Does Business: Implementing the BERT Model for Natural Language Processing at Wayfair

Matthias Mozer Matthias Mozer November 27th, 2019

Introduction Every day, Wayfair receives tens of thousands of messages from customers, telling us about their experiences with our products and services through the likes of product reviews, return comments, and various surveys. Considering that our customers spend valuable time writing these, it is fair to assume that they have……

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We’re Never Done: Continuing My Education At Wayfair

We’re Never Done: Continuing My Education At Wayfair

Jeff Hong Jeff Hong November 25th, 2019

Choosing between school and work can be an either-or proposition for many, whether for financial reasons or because there simply don’t seem to be enough hours in the day.  When faced with this decision myself, I initially shared similar concerns. However, I soon found that at Wayfair this can be……

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