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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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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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How and Why We Contributed to MvRx

How and Why We Contributed to MvRx

Milivoje Kojadinovic Milivoje Kojadinovic October 17th, 2019

State machines – they’ve been around for a long time in computer science, but are perhaps forgotten in the last few decades, at least in mobile apps. My team at Wayfair chose to revisit state machines and give them a try in our production app. This is how we came…

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Our Self-Service Hybrid Performance Engineering Platform

Our Self-Service Hybrid Performance Engineering Platform

Jaishankar Padmanabhan Jaishankar Padmanabhan December 28th, 2018

At Wayfair, we pride ourselves on our speedy response times to issues during heavy web traffic to ensure a smooth customer experience. As we scale and continue adding products to our catalog, it is imperative that our backend infrastructure is able to handle increased traffic, especially during retail peaks and…

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DevTech Promoters at Wayfair: Taking Ownership of Technical Debt and Overseeing the Health of our Codebase

DevTech Promoters at Wayfair: Taking Ownership of Technical Debt and Overseeing the Health of our Codebase

Roberto Ladd Roberto Ladd October 3rd, 2018

Moving a couch across multiple countries to land in your living room, a couple of days after placing an order, is a challenging business. The Transportation Engineering team at Wayfair, who look after the transportation portion of our logistics, knows this all too well. This capability has given us a…

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Algo Dev Day: A Community Service Hackathon

Algo Dev Day: A Community Service Hackathon

Avatar Wayfair May 16th, 2018

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……

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UMass Amherst Data Science Research Symposium: A Glimpse of Marketing Data Science at Wayfair

UMass Amherst Data Science Research Symposium: A Glimpse of Marketing Data Science at Wayfair

Jerry Chen Jerry Chen May 10th, 2018

In April, I attended the Data Science Research Symposium at University of Massachusetts Amherst and gave a short talk highlighting Wayfair’s marketing data science projects. The full video and slides are below, but here’s an overview.   Goals of marketing data science at Wayfair As the largest online retailer of……

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Testing our Confidence: Scaling Software Quality with Automated Testing

Testing our Confidence: Scaling Software Quality with Automated Testing

DT Norris DT Norris April 10th, 2018

As Wayfair’s business has scaled, so too has the size of our engineering teams – not to mention the complexity of the software features we’re building. At the same time, moving quickly in the global tech landscape has never mattered more. As a modern tech company, one simply cannot afford…

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