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Expanding the eBay Stores Experience to Our Mobile App

The eBay Stores experience is now available on our mobile app for Android and iOS.

By: Minh Tran-Lee

Data Infrastructure and Services in Engineering

An Introduction to Apache Flink

How we’re using Apache Flink to handle big data streaming in real-time.

By: Chenru Lyu

Computer Vision in Engineering

eBay’s Technology Transformation is Made for Evolving Customer Needs

How our advances in edge computing are empowering both buyers and sellers in times of great demand with ease and agility.

By: Mazen Rawashdeh

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User Experience in Product

Introducing eBay’s New Time Away Feature to Help Sellers Manage Selling on eBay While on a Break

Time Away is now available to all Sellers and automatically updates the shipping date to make the experience more seamless.

By: Vikram Shandilya

Mobile in Product

eBay Partners with Google Assistant to Bring Voice Control to eBay’s Android App

A new partnership launches voice control capabilities on our marketplace to meet the needs of our customers by creating a more seamless, modern experience.

By: Evan Thomas

Developer Tools in Engineering

An Automatic Mirror Testing Solution for Messaging Systems in eBay

A look at how we developed a solution for automatic mirror testing to overcome the challenges of migrating eBay’s proprietary messaging applications to a more modern technical stack.

By: Tao Jin and Vivek Gadiyar

Kubernetes in Engineering

Our Online Analytical Processing Journey with ClickHouse on Kubernetes

Learn about the latest evolution of online analytical processing (OLAP) data, now with ClickHouse on Kubernetes.

By: Sudeep Kumar, Mohan Garadi, Xiancheng Li, Amber Vaidya and Liangfei Su

Developer Tools in Engineering

High Efficiency Tool Platform for Framework Migration

The eBay framework team has implemented a brand new tooling platform to speed up framework level migration. It supports highly efficient migration of applications running on legacy stacks to new platforms. This has been proven by the success stories migrating Batch, SOA, Trading/Shopping API, and messaging application migration.

By: Paul Zhang and Vivek Gadiyar