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Automation in Engineering

How eBay’s Buy APIs Hit $5 Billion in Gross Merchandise Bought

eBay’s Buy APIs enable third-party developers to surface eBay inventory in their shopping experience, allowing consumers to purchase items without visiting an eBay site.

By: Tanya Vlahovic
Developer Tools in Engineering

Celebrating 20 Years: eBay’s New APIs Enable Developers to Create Modern Buying and Selling Experiences

eBay launches APIs for Managed Payments, Seller Initiated Offers, Charity and more for developers to help their businesses thrive.

By: Tanya Vlahovic
Developer Tools in Engineering

How We Used Our Buy APIs, Catch Platform to Build a New Portal for the NHS

In partnership with the U.K. National Health Services, we leveraged our Buy APIs and Catch platform to build a new portal to deliver personal protective equipment to frontline health care workers.

By: Tanya Vlahovic
Developer Tools in Engineering

Know Your Developer (KYD)

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.

By: Tanya Vlahovic
Developer Tools in Engineering

API Mindset at eBay

APIs allow organizations to give their partners access to data and capabilities, at scale. Extensible and adaptable API ecosystems make it easier for developers to innovate. Building such an ecosystem is a progressive journey with many technical challenges.

By: Tanya Vlahovic
Developer Tools in Engineering

Two Years Later: APIs are the Destination

eBay speaks API! Two years ago, we started a journey to deliver a new, modern family of APIs to expose marketplace capabilities to sellers and buyers.

By: Tanya Vlahovic
Developer Tools in Engineering

The API Journey: Or How We Built a New Family of Modern Services

An API — or application programming interface — is an intermediary that enables applications to interact.

By: Tanya Vlahovic

Tanya leads the Developer Ecosystem at eBay. Prior to leading the team, she worked as a lead architect for public APIs. She is one of the key contributors to revamping eBay's public API program. Tanya is directly involved in all strategic partner integrations. Her expertise includes various aspects of API lifecycle: design; cross-cutting concerns; API decomposition and namespace definition; API portfolio governance; and maturity models. She authored and co-authored many of eBay’s technical standards and patterns for internal microservices and public APIs. Through public speaking, Tanya contributes to increasing the visibility of the eBay developers program.

Abstract:

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a multi-dimensional commerce platform that may be utilized for the communication of data. Aspects of the multi- dimensional commerce platform may include various functional components to facilitate a system to receive inventory data at a first server associated with the multi-dimensional commerce platform, provide a second server associated with a third-party (e.g., a third party seller/distributor) access to the inventory data, alter or modify the inventory data based on attributes of the second server, and cause display of a presentation of the modified inventory data at a client device.

Country: United States
Grant Date: March 31, 2020
INVENTORS: Gail Frederick, Sanjeev Katariya, Tanya Vlahovic
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Tanya Vlahovic - Head of Developer Ecosystem & Distinguished Architect

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