vim emacs talk by Aaron Bieber
I can’t believe I’m writing a post about vim and emacs in the year 2015! But our very own Aaron Bieber just spoke at the vim meetup on how he’s been secretly using emacs all the time for a few months,...
View ArticleTechJam 2015
Come hang out with us tomorrow, June 11th, from 4 pm to 9 pm, at TechJam. Not to be too transparent, but we’re hiring! We will be at booth 43, bostontechjam@wayfair.com, #btj2015. Steve Conine, Wayfair...
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No-follow SEO link highlighter Chrome extension
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...
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Wayfair Labs in the news
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...
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Tungsten in the news
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,...
View ArticleBoston events during the week of 25 July 2016, on augmented/virtual reality,...
There are three events in Boston this week where Wayfair engineers will be speaking. On Monday, July 25th, I am on a panel called “What’s Hot in Tech: Providing Next Gen Experiences,” which is part of...
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Wayfair Engineering FAQ, a conversation with the Chief Architect
Q1: What’s the tech stack in a nutshell? A: PHP on Linux, and a few data backends, with continuous deployment at the pace of ~250 zero-downtime code pushes a day. Q2: Whoah, that’s a lot of code...
View ArticleUpgrading our stack for web performance: early flushing, http/2, and more
What’s fast, jank-free, and has what you need for your home? Wayfair’s mobile web site, that’s what! Behind this spiffy Android experience, and behind all of the ways into Wayfair that we make...
View ArticleDan Milstein at ReDev tomorrow
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...
View ArticleRubber duck problem-solving, Game of Thrones, and statsdcc
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...
View ArticleTech Radar at Wayfair
I have just hit the "publish" button on Wayfair's Tech Radar. This is a manifestation of our commitment to transparently share how we think about the technologies we use to build our systems and...
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