Wayfair Engineering is excited to host and organize the first react.js conference in New England on September 23-24, 2017 here at our headquarters in Boston’s Back Bay. Over the last year we’ve partnered with ReactJS Boston, the local react user group, to sponsor and host react meetup events nearly every…
A few years ago, after reading this blog post by Jeff Atwood, we started handing out rubber ducks to new hires in Wayfair Engineering, to encourage self-reliance and good questions in mentoring situations. We have accumulated a lot of ducks over the years throughout the department, but our Search Technologies…
Wayfair Engineering’s own Dan Milstein (@danmil) is giving an afternoon keynote tomorrow called “Reality is a Worthy Opponent” at MassTLC’s ReDev, which looks packed with great technical talks. It’s at MIT’s Samberg Conference Center in Cambridge, MA. If you’re in town, check it out! Registration (paid) here. [Ed: And the…
I’m super thrilled to announce that I’ll be representing Wayfair at 2 major conferences this year: CSS Dev Conference and the Strange Loop! My new talk “Light Speed Web with Progressive Web Apps” , which I present October 9 in New Orleans at @CSSDevConf, will cover the basics of PWA, the UX…
Search has long been an essential tool for Wayfair that enables users to discover products among millions. While we offer great text and faceted search, those features can only go so far. It can be difficult to precisely describe an item in mind, especially in a way search engines can…
This post describes a recent architectural change made on my team at Wayfair. The Intelligent Systems Team, as we are called, is responsible for creating a fully personalized experience for millions of customers every day. One of the core products we own is the Recommendations Service. At its core, the…
The SEO team at Wayfair is supported by a dedicated engineering team that builds our suite of in-house tools, continually improves the SEO code on our family of sites, and explores and measures the latest SEO trends — from HTTPS to AMP. In addition to proprietary work for Wayfair, the…
What’s fast, jank-free, and has what you need for your home? Wayfair’s mobile web site, that’s what! Behind this spiffy Android experience, and behind all of the ways into Wayfair that we make available to our customers, are some fresh technical upgrades and an evolution of our programming and product…
That’s a heat map of 3 months of Wayfair North American orders, exported via Logstash from our relational orders database into Elasticsearch, and visualized with Kibana 4. For some time now, ELK, or Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana, has been our opensource platform for text-based log messages, complemented by Graphite…
Last week, President Obama awarded his Presidential Medals of Freedom. There were some incredible people on the list of recipients, and we salute them all. Most notably for us he recognized two women, Margaret Hamilton and Grace Hopper, who blazed a path in software development with their incredible breakthroughs, led the pack for…
When we started Wayfair Next – Wayfair’s R&D group that explores next generation experiences, we spoke to a lot of AR and VR application developers who were interested in creating experiences for us. In line with our engineering culture, we wanted to create the experiences ourselves and figure out how…
