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Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

Dec 3, 2014

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…

Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

Jun 16, 2014

Experience optimization at Zulily

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

Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

Dec 10, 2014

Simulating Decisions to Improve Them

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

Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

Sep 23, 2019

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…

Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

May 29, 2019

My First Six months at Zulily After a Bootcamp

Things I had to learn on the go:

Becoming an IntelliJ…

Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

Apr 30, 2015

Sampling keys in a Redis cluster

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

Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

Dec 16, 2014

Facebook-Zulily Joint Hack Day

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

Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

Dec 4, 2014

Meet a Zulily developer: Beryl

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

Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

Oct 29, 2014

Meet a Zulily developer: Bala

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

Melissa Thorne in Zulily Tech Blog

Oct 1, 2014

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…