Open Source

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…

On the Relevancy team at Zulily, we are often required to load a large number of large strings into memory. This often causes memory issues. After looking at multiple ways to reduce memory pressure, we settled on Radix Trees to store…

Here at Zulily, Go is increasingly becoming the language of choice for many new projects, from tiny command-line apps to high-volume, distributed services. We love the language and the tooling, and some of us are more than happy to talk your ear off about it. Setting aside the merits and…