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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!
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.