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eBay’s Global Secondary Indexes

How eBay enabled a real-time, distributed and performant index service for its NuData platform, a large-scale, in-house database platform

By: Jung-Sang Ahn and Dongho Kim

Frontend Engineering in Engineering

Rethink Modals Management in React

A small, zero-dependency utility to manage modals for React.

By: Nate Wang and Feng Xie

Java in Engineering

eBay Event Notification Platform: Listener SDKs

How eBay’s new event notification platform supports asynchronous communication for our API partners

By: Lokesh Rishi, Lead Software Engineer

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User Experience in Product

Faster Shipping Speeds for Cross-Border Orders

eBay is making it easier for our customers to ship items faster and know when their items will arrive.

By: Kunal Goel, Senior Product Manager, Technical

Microservices in Research

Groot: eBay’s Event-graph-based Approach for Root Cause Analysis

The framework achieves great coverage and performance across different incident triaging scenarios, and also outperforms other state-of-the-art root cause analysis methodologies.

By: Hanzhang Wang, Applied Researcher

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