Developer Stories

Google Compute Engine Hadoop clusters with zdutil

Here at Zulily, we use Google Compute Engine (GCE) for running our Hadoop clusters. Google has a utility called bdutil for setting up and tearing down Hadoop clusters on GCE. We ran into a number of issues when using the utility and were using…

Experience optimization at Zulily

Experimentation is the name of the game for most top tech companies, and it’s no different here at…

Simulating Decisions to Improve Them

One of the jobs of the Data Science team is to help Zulily make better decisions through data…

Interning at Zulily

This was my first internship, so I came to my first day of work with one goal; learning, but I didn’t know it was going to…

My First Six months at Zulily After a Bootcamp

Things I had to learn on the go:

• Becoming an IntelliJ…

Sampling keys in a Redis cluster

We love Redis here at Zulily. We store hundreds of millions of keys across many Redis instances, and…

Facebook-Zulily Joint Hack Day

Zulily launches over 9,000 unique styles — more than the size of an average Costco — every day. This…

Meet a Zulily developer: Beryl

Who are you, and what do you do at Zulily?

Meet a Zulily developer: Bala

Who are you, and what do you do at Zulily?

Expect: How a 20-Year-Old Tool Saved My Project

I joined Zulily in August of 2010, and at the time the company as a whole consisted of only 35 people. One of my first projects involved integrating one of our systems with a system owned by a much larger, more established partner company. The…