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November 29, 2016
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 women in engineering, and helped to inspire our Women In Technology group here at Wayfair. This is a fantastic step forward in recognition for women in engineering – especially as we aim to further close the gender gap in STEM fields. We are thrilled to see two fierce women representing the technology field, and so we here at Wayfair Engineering would like to extend our enthusiastic congratulations to both Margaret and Grace! We truly appreciate everything they’ve done for us all. There's so much to learn from these women, including that you can’t stop when faced with adversity.
October 5, 2016
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 to help our customers better visualize our products. Home decor lends itself very well to the application of AR and VR technology. As we ventured further into AR and VR territory, we realized that visualization technology was not the barrier. The bottleneck was the dearth of 3D content out there, especially in the V-commerce space.
September 12, 2016
PHP7 is out. This isn’t news. It’s been out since last December, with nine minor revisions since then. What’s new is that it’s serving all of Wayfair’s customer-facing traffic.
July 24, 2016
There are three events in Boston this week where Wayfair engineers will be speaking.
October 27, 2015
There's a great interview with our own Matt DeGennaro by Paul Krill of Infoworld that came out a few days ago. The topic is Tungsten.js, our awesome framework that 'lights up' the DOM with fast, virtual-DOM-based updates, React-style, and can be integrated with Backbone.js and pretty much whatever other framework you want. It's spiffy, it has a logo,
October 26, 2015
Scott Kirsner has a terrific piece about tech talent wars in Boston, that was in Beta Boston on Friday, and then in the print edition of the Boston Globe on Sunday, October 26th. It features Wayfair Labs, which is our hiring and onboarding program for level 1 engineers in most of the department (a few specialized roles excepted). I am the director of it, so if you have any questions, please reach out.
August 11, 2015
When you write your first web application, chances are you’re going to query a database. When you write it in PHP, chances are it’ll look like this:
July 30, 2015
Performance is top priority here at Wayfair, because improved performance means an improved customer experience. A significant piece of web performance is the time it takes to render, or generate, the markup for a page. Over the last several months we've worked hard to improve the render performance on our customer facing sites, and ensure it's easier for our engineers to write code that results in page renders with optimal performance.
June 16, 2015
Cari, who is a developer on our SEO team, just wrote a Chrome extension that's up on both github (https://github.com/wayfair/nofollow_highlighter) and the Chrome web store (click here to add to Chrome). If you don't know this subject matter, here's a classic explanation from Matt Cutts of Google, from a few years ago: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/. A lot has changed in SEO since then, but this basic idea has become a constant in internet life: if you're compensating people for a promotional activity, they need to make that clear to Google with a 'nofollow' link. Here's an example of a blogger who is doing it right, with a disclaimer saying she was compensated with a gift card, to keep the FTC happy, and a 'nofollow' link with the yellow highlight from our plug-in, indicating that the link properly warns Google not to pass page rank, or whatever they're calling 'Google mojo' these days, through to the destination. The other links on the page don't show up color-coded one way or the other, because they go to domains we don't care about.