Cloud Bigtable is a scalable, distributed, high-performance NoSQL database that processes more than 6 billion requests per second at peak and has more than 10 Exabytes of data under management. Operating at this scale, Bigtable is highly optimized for high-throughput and low-latency reads and writes. Even so, our performance engineering team continually explores new areas […]

For years, Google Cloud has been driving business transformation across the financial services industry with native and partner solutions. These solutions help customers drive top line growth, improve efficiency, and better manage risk. Among these are a growing number of tools for improving how financial services organizations solve for increasingly complex regulatory requirements. Collectively known […]

At Wayfair, we have content creation pipelines that automate some portions of 3D model and 3D scene creation, and render images from those models/scenes. At a high level, suppliers provide us with product images and information about dimensions, materials, etc., and we use them to create photorealistic 3D models and generate proprietary imagery. But creating […]

In our previous post, we discussed various cost optimization strategies that we here at Wayfair identified to use on a render platform that we had recently moved to Google Cloud using a lift-and-shift migration strategy. In this post, we’ll shift our focus to how we applied those strategies to plan and execute the initiatives, and […]

Insurance management has come a long way in recent years, with new technologies and tools emerging to streamline processes and improve customer experiences. However, many insurance companies are still using legacy systems that are slow, inflexible, and difficult to integrate across different channels. One of the biggest problems with legacy insurance management systems is their […]