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October 7, 2020
The online retailing market is very competitive and demanding, so you need to deliver new features/functionalities to your customers as quickly as possible. In these realities, every wasted minute can cost you thousands of dollars.
October 1, 2020
Bernie Miles, Head of Engineering, and Darach Ennis, Principal Engineer, discuss the role of principal engineer at Wayfair as well as the interesting challenges that accompany the position.
September 25, 2020
The challenges of creating dynamic, global Supply Chain systems for hundreds of thousands of small and large parcel items is not for everybody! In this video, Füsun Wehrmann explains her story discovering Wayfair and diving into the world of Supply Chain. She explains the challenges her team faces and where she sees the future of Supply Chain going.
September 21, 2020
In the last decade, Wayfair relied heavily on its homegrown ticketing system for its Engineering, Product, and Operational needs. Starting Q1 2020, Wayfair decided to standardize on Projecthub (Atlassian Jira) thus enabling a range of powerful features, all unified under one single platform. Containerized Jira environment is a relatively fresh practice in the industry and we had to break new ground in customizing Jira’s Docker image to fit our needs. Another learning exercise was the deployment of this third-party application as a Stateful set on our on-prem k8s cluster.
September 16, 2020
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 fit in my space?” With AR, virtual 3D versions of products can be seen in a customer’s actual space at true-to-life scale using technology that’s already in their pocket – their smartphone.
August 19, 2020
In today’s fast moving e-commerce industry, customers want control and convenience for receiving their deliveries. This key customer need and insight led to the creation and launch of the Wayfair Delivery Network, our very own proprietary large parcel delivery service.
August 14, 2020
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: