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Are these discards from the jet.com acquisition or actual critical path libraries?

• mcescalante 9y ago
  Walmart acquired a company called Kosmix in 2011 and spun it out as a research division called @WalmartLabs [1]. Walmart acquired the online retailer, Jet.com in late 2016 which still has their own engineering team (using a lot of F#) Stuff coming from @WalmartLabs is almost always real stuff that Walmart is using in production (website, apps, etc.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@WalmartLabs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@WalmartLabs
  • qmarchi 9y ago
    Yup! A portion of Electrode is being used inside of the Walmart.com app.
• brianwawok 9y ago
  No, Walmartlabs is the SV based version of walmart meant to build a walmart.com 3rd party merchant amazon killer. They use a lot of node and JS. Jet.com is a NY based startup. They use F#. They have quite separate code bases, and as far as I can tell no plans to merge them.
  • rhokstar 9y ago
    Walmart Labs also has a campus in Carlsbad, California. I've seen the Walmart crew in some JS and React meetups.
    • qmarchi 9y ago
      Sunnyvale, Carlsbad, Bangalore, Bentonville, and that place in New Jersey. We're all one org.