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How did you get here? Have you been staring at the screen for days debugging a mysterious problem that makes no sense? The head-banging is probably making you dizzy and even more frustrated. Now, move away from that wall and read on. I am going to share some debugging tips that will help you.

In this blog, we discuss strategies to improve application speed.

Part of our mission within Core AI at eBay is to develop computer vision models that will power innovative and compelling customer experiences. But how can we compare several visual search models and say which of them works better? This article will describe a method that is tackling this problem directly from the eyes of the users.

In this blog, we discuss our journey to enable NameNode federation for cluster with 4,000+ nodes, 1B file system objects and 170PB of storage.

The team continues to update the eBay Motors App using Google’s UI toolkit, Flutter.

The vision of any API program is to deliver a world-class developer experience that enables partners to be inventive, provide their users with fantastic experience, and propel their business into the future. Learn the guiding principles behind eBay's Developers Program.

A test-and-learn culture is key to building the best experiences for our customers.

Follow the journey of integrating Terapeak into eBay Seller Hub, making it available to millions of eBay sellers.

We built an algorithm that lets users change the background of their listing photos.

With 1.4 billion listings on eBay, improving the speed to render these listings at scale and accuracy is a huge engineering challenge. We have taken major steps to cache item data, which brings great speed improvements.

Today's children are exposed to technology from a very young age, and on many occasions, 2-year-olds seem to understand the iPad better than adults. Is this enough to encourage and influence them to pursue a career in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)?

Large scale applications are ubiquitous in today's world, processing hundreds of billions of events and producing thousands of metrics. Sifting through these metrics to surface actionable insights without using scientific methods can be challenging. In this blog post, we explore an introduction to the realm of predictive analytics in the context of anomaly detection.

A recent eBay Tech Blog article¹ presented the Unified AI platform called Krylov. In this article, we show how Krylov users interact with the platform to build and manage powerful workflows in a pythonic and efficient way.

As we move further into 2020, it’s worth reviewing a selection of key eBay Open Source projects released in 2019.

In 2019, eBay prioritized a company-wide initiative, aptly called “Speed,” focused on improving the performance of critical eBay flows across all platforms — iOS, Android, and Web. This article explains the journey and outcomes.

Model-based analysis makes it possible to rigorously test and validate changes prior to deployment. This approach enabled the eBay Network Engineering staff to undertake a project to refactor a large business critical Access Control List, resulting in an 80% reduction in size, without any adverse business impact.

Automated testing helps organizations build better software, faster. Automation can also be used to standardize user experiences or maintain code compliance. With respect to accessibility, automation can be used to bring awareness by helping people with little to no accessibility knowledge easily find, file and fix bugs.

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How the AI transformation at eBay was powered by a modern AI platform with a unified and open approach.