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Service Architecture in Engineering

The Engineering Behind Coded Coupons, eBay’s New Seller Tool

This tool was developed by using a dual-write system — including Oracle and MongoDB.

By: Senthilkumar Gopal
Developer Tools in Engineering

Surfacing eBay Inventory Across the Web with the eBay Items Widget

The new open-source widget gives developers several layout options for displaying eBay inventory in third-party shopping experiences.

By: Lokesh Rishi, Lead Software Engineer
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Developer Tools in Engineering

eBay Connect 2021: How Our Newest APIs Are Enhancing Customer Experiences

With some of our most innovative third-party developers attending eBay Connect this year, we shared new API capabilities as well as opportunities to enhance user experiences.

By: Tanya Vlahovic, Head of Developer Ecosystem & Distinguished Architect

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User Experience in Product

Simplifying Shipping Signals on eBay

eBay is making it easier for our customers to know when their items will arrive with the new streamlined interface.

By: Shuja Rahman, Director of Product Management
Advertising in Product

eBay's Enhanced Advertising Dashboard

This upgrade to the Advertising dashboard enables sellers to easily check their Promoted Listings performance and leverage valuable insights to scale their businesses.

By: Licy Ambrose, Gokulnath Palanivel and Courtney Mayeda
Data Infrastructure and Services in Engineering

Block Aggregator: Real-time Data Ingestion from Kafka to ClickHouse with Deterministic Retries

Learn about the message-processing engine eBay developed to avoid data loss or duplication during delivery from Kafka to ClickHouse.

By: Mohammad Roohitavaf and Jun Li
Hadoop in Engineering

Optimizing Analytics Data Processing on eBay’s New Open-Source-Based Platform

See how eBay adopted a five-level tuning strategy for an in-house analytics tool to exceed a legacy vendor’s performance.

By: Rongguan Fu, Tianyou Li and Naveen Dhanpal
Hadoop in Engineering

Unpacking eBay’s New SQL Authoring Tool for Data Creation and Management

Discover how eBay built a tool for data modeling, ETL and SQL editing to enhance our analytics platform.

By: Stanley Chen, Gavin Zhu and Valerie Steinbrugge
Hadoop in Engineering

Explore eBay’s New Optimized Spark SQL Engine for Interactive Analysis

See how eBay created an optimized SQL solution to enhance speed, stability and scalability in service of a new open-source-based analytics platform.

By: Gang Ma, Lisa Li and Naveen Dhanpal
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