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WayfairCompany

Online retailer of furniture and home goods

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Google CloudService

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After an entire summer of high traffic and high revenue events where everything performed flawlessly, we knew GCP was the answer.

Wayfair on completing its migration of all data center applications to Google Cloud Platform

2022-10-13·aboutwayfair.com ↗

Google CloudService

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After researching three of the most popular public cloud offerings, we chose Google Cloud Platform (GCP) based on a combination of business factors and technical requirements.

Wayfair engineering on why it chose Google Cloud Platform

2021-05-26·aboutwayfair.com ↗

Cloud StorageService

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After outgrowing NFS and RIAK object storage technologies, we decided to move T2 cache alone to Google Cloud Storage (GCS), improving scalability, reducing maintenance costs and putting it closer to our content delivery providers (CDNs).

Wayfair's first production move into Google Cloud: its image cache

2021-05-26·aboutwayfair.com ↗

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