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February 13, 2018
Early in 2017, Wayfair made the decision to adopt React as our primary frontend framework of choice. Rather than cover the reasons why we chose React, more interestingly, we'd like to focus on some of the architecture challenges we faced during the conversion.
January 11, 2018
Here at Wayfair, we believe complexity theory to be valuable and quite helpful in terms of data center builds. In particular, there are certain ways we can use this theorem to prevent outages in the future. There will forever be unpredictable events – how do we assess their difficulty or state to be better prepared for their arrival?
November 2, 2017
Wayfair offers a zillion things home, with one of the world's largest online selections of furniture, home furnishings, décor and goods, including more than eight million products from over 10,000 suppliers. Wayfair's expanding Visual Search team is leveraging deep learning and our expansive catalog of images to create an exciting new way for shoppers to find the perfect product for their homes.
September 27, 2017
This past weekend, Wayfair hosted the first-ever ReactJS conference on the East Coast. ReactBoston was a two-day whirlwind of talks on everything from the popular and pressing (React Fiber) to the unexpected and astounding (piloting drones with React; that sound you hear is the audience's collective jaw hitting the floor).
August 23, 2017
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.
August 11, 2017
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 group seems to have stockpiled some kind of mother lode. Lately, they have been producing a new Game-of-Thrones-themed diorama, made of rubber ducks, every week. The one this week was particularly awesome:
August 7, 2017
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.
June 1, 2017
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!