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About Us
Company blog · tech.wayfair.comprogrammingwebsystems
About Us is the company blog at tech.wayfair.com, writing about programming, web and systems. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wayfair's engineering blog for its technical posts, such as a 2013 benchmark comparing devnull and MongoDB. Comments mention the posts without judging the writing in depth.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
The performance gains are very impressive https://tech.wayfair.com/2013/04/devnull-vs-mongodb-benchmar...
Comment linking /2013/04/devnull-vs-mongodb-benchmark-bake-off/
on “Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims”Submitted Wayfair's Conversion to React and Redux as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI definitely become more attracted to companies with high quality blog posts on things I'm interested in. The right blog is a really big signal that I'd be interested in the work at the company. Besides picking the next company, great blog posts can be a real help in sanity checking the work that's happening in our team. I've noticed even senior engineers treating good blog posts from big companies as "See, we're no…
Comment linking /data-science/2020/01/bayesian-product-ranking-at-wayfair/
on “How some good corporate engineering blogs are written”Submitted Project Argo Goes Open Source: On-Prem Automation and Path to Hybrid Environment as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rethinking of Time Series Data at Wayfair as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Wayfair scaled their private cloud in 24 hours as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise and Fall of Gitlab CI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocking IO in Gunicorn Gevent Workers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted iOS at Scale: Modularization as a story · 1 points
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