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How Wayfair optimizes content placement considering competing short term marketing and long term business goals

How Wayfair Tech increased Deploy Frequency 490% in 2.5 years

Wayfair increased its Deploy Frequency - the rate at which we ship new functionality to customers - by 490% between January 2019 and June 2021.

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Justifying Fixing Tech Debt

Technical Debt is a part of any software project, but it usually gets forgotten in the never-ending race to add new features. Learn how we created a Code Quality Score to surface Tech Debt as part of our Team Quality Metrics.

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Wayfair's Journey to DBaaS

The following blog outlines how the Database team at Wayfair took a principles based approach to transforming how our Engineers interact with and manage their database infrastructure; moving from a largely operational world to one that is characterized by choice and autonomy.

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Speeding up A/B Tests with Delayed Reward Forecasting

Some experiments at Wayfair can last 60 days or more. To speed up learning in experiments while still optimizing for long term rewards, our team developed a data science platform called Demeter, that uses ML models to forecast longer term KPIs based on customer activity in the short term. In this post we provide an overview for Demeter and its theoretical foundation in causal inference

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Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month, and Wayfair believes security education and awareness is a critical component of our overall security program. This blog will outline how Wayfair’s Cybersecurity Awareness Program educates employees on how to act securely in the workplace and in their personal lives.

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Keep Calm and Delete Your Pods

How our microservice governance layer helped us survive a crazy data center outage

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Wayfair Wins Google Cloud Retail Customer Award

Wayfair today announced that it has received a Google Cloud Retail Customer Award. This award was presented at the global digital experience, Google Cloud Next ’21, on October 12.

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Contextual Bandit for Marketing Treatment Optimization

We’ve designed and developed a scalable algorithmic decision-making platform called WayLift for paid media marketing. In this blog post, we will provide an overview of the theoretical foundation of WayLift — the contextual bandit algorithms for optimizing marketing decisions.