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PHP Static Analysis with HHVM and Hussar

Wayfair Engineering places special emphasis on software testing as a means of maintaining stability in production. The DevTools team, which I am a member of, has built and integrated a number of tools into our development and deploy process in order to catch errors as early as possible, especially before they land in master. If you missed it, last week we released sp-phpunit, a script to manage running PHPUnit tests in parallel.

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Sweet Parallel PHPUnit

We write a lot of PHP unit tests at Wayfair, and we want to be able to run them as fast as possible, which seems like a good use case for parallelization. Running tests in parallel is not built in to PHPUnit, but there are ways to do it. When we looked we found three: parallel-phpunit, ParaTest, and GNU Parallel. All met some of our needs, but none was exactly what we wanted, so we got to work.

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WebPerf on Location Boston, with Jack Wood

Catchpoint is running an event today, called "WebPerf on Location Boston", part of a series of such events in different cities. It starts at 2, and our very own Jack Wood, Wayfair CIO, is speaking at 3:30. Details and the link to register are here. It's at Battery Ventures in the seaport area, and it should be an excellent afternoon.

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Web components talk at CSS Dev Conference

Andrew Rota, an engineer in our client technologies group, is speaking in a bit, at the CSS Dev conference in New Orleans, on "Web Components and Modular CSS #components". It's a great talk, about these emerging standards and what's possible to do with them. If you're there, check it out: http://cssdevconf2014.sched.org/. We'll post the links to slides and video when they come out.

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Barcamp Boston 2014

Wayfair is a gold sponsor of Barcamp Boston this weekend at Microsoft NERD in Cambridge. Quite a few of us will be there, some speaking. If you've never been, it's a great event.

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Here's our Frontline team at work, in our spiffy network operations center:

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Mobile Development Tech Talk Series, second installment

Wayfair's mobile architect, Jeff Ladino, is giving the second of a series of tech talks, on Wayfair's mobile applications. The event will be held at Wayfair's new offices, 4 Copley Place, on Tuesday, September 9th, from 6 pm to 7:30. Pizza will be served. Details on the talk, and free Eventbrite signup, are at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-development-tech-talk-series-tickets-12526809023.

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Mobile Development Tech Talk Series

Wayfair's mobile architect, Jeff Ladino, is giving the first of a series of tech talks, on Wayfair's mobile applications. The event will be held at Wayfair's new offices, 4 Copley Place, on August 5th, from 6 pm to 7:30. Pizza will be served. It should be a great talk, in our great new space. Details on the talk, and free Eventbrite signup, are at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-development-tech-talk-series-tickets-12304949435.

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Wayfair at Boston TechJam 2014

Wayfair engineering will be out in force at Boston TechJam 2014, on Thursday, June 12, 2014, at Boston City Hall Plaza, starting at 4 pm. We'll be in the middle row, one slot away from the beer tent, and we will have some fun stuff, including a giant game of Jenga. You can meet Steve Conine, co-founder, owner, chairman and CTO of Wayfair, as well as other engineering team members. If you don't know Wayfair engineering, we're an intense but friendly team of ~300 people, at the largest and fastest-growing e-commerce company in Boston. We used to call ourselves the biggest Boston tech company you've never heard of, but that's all changing fast. Come and hang out with us!