Senthil Padmanabhan

eCommerce sites are ideal candidates for push notifications and eBay is no exception. Timely notifications can help users track the status of items that they have purchased or watching or bidding, without effectively being on the site. But we are also aware that push notifications can end up being a double-edged sword. At eBay, we recently launched web push notifications for a subset of desktop users and want to share that experience.

HTTPS is not just about security. There are many benefits that come along with it. One such benefit is access to modern technologies. Check out how eBay leverages some of these new technologies that HTTPS opens up.

Many companies want to offer their products and services as both web and native experiences -- so-called multi-screen application development. Application development on various devices is historically siloed. The eBay Experience Service interface abstracts most business logic/knowledge away from clients to provide new functionality to native and web apps with minimum or no client code change.

The usage of custom fonts in web pages have steadily increased in recent years. As of this writing, 68% of sites in the HTTP Archive use at least one custom font. At eBay, we have been discussing custom web fonts for typography for quite some time, but never really pursued it. The main reason was due to uncertainty in end user experiences from a performance standpoint.

As web developers, we have seen the guidelines for building UI components evolve over the years.

Three months back we announced how we are transforming the shopping experience at eBay, enabling our users to browse with style and speed.

One of the top initiatives for eBay this year is to provide a compelling browse experience to our users.

Like all other JavaScript enthusiasts around the globe, engineers at eBay were eagerly watching the space of ECMAScript 6.

An interesting topic of discussion in recent times has been around static resource (JS/CSS) packaging for web applications.

We are in an interesting phase of rethinking frontend engineering across eBay Marketplaces, and this blog summarizes where we are heading.

Yes, like everyone else in web development, eBay has become immersed in the mystical world of Responsive Web Design.

For the most part, eBay runs on a Java-based tech stack.

Until fairly recently, a single point of failure (SPOF)—a condition that can bring down an entire system—has been predominantly associated with the backend world of server clusters, networking, and operations.

The eBay Motors engineering team took up an initiative to revisit some of the legacy JavaScript code shared across various pages, optimizing them to leverage the latest advancements in HTML5.

Our eBay Motors homepage has been around for more than 5 years, and we needed to give it a facelift.

In the inaugural topic of this blog on site speed, Hugh Williams spoke briefly about image spriting as a technique to speed up the rendering of a page.