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Identity
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Push Notifications-based 2-step Verification

To create a trustworthy online marketplace, we need to ensure only authenticated and authorized users gain access to their accounts. Learn how eBay built a secure, easy-to-use, and robust authentication framework using push notifications and leveraged it for 2-step verification.

By: Anand Bahety
Distributed Transactions
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GRIT: a Protocol for Distributed Transactions across Microservices

eBay technologists recently showed off a distributed transaction protocol called GRIT, for distributed ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) transactions across microservices with multiple underlying databases.

By: Gene Zhang, Jung-Sang Ahn, Kun Ren and Mohammad Roohitavaf
Cloud
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Scalability Tuning on a Tess.IO Cluster

Tess.IO is eBay’s new unified cloud infrastructure based on Kubernetes. With more and more applications being deployed on the Tess cluster, the requirements for scalability and capability of the cluster are growing. This article describes how to achieve 5000-node scalability for the tess.IO cluster.

By: Yingnan Zhang
Distributed Systems
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eBay Helps Sellers Better Manage and Grow their Business with Multi-User Account Access

Learn about how eBay enabled sellers to grant access to their accounts in a private and secure way.

By: Dave Kamalsky, Karthik Thavamani, Lester Dorman, Mallikarjuna Potta and Rekha Patel
Cloud
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Low Latency and High Throughput in CAL Ingress

CAL Ingress, the main component of eBay's Centralized Application Logging (CAL) system, is responsible for collecting, processing, and dispatching application server local logs from thousands of CAL clients in the cloud. This article introduces the whole system architecture design and performance optimization to meet the requirements of low latency and high throughput for huge amounts of traffic.

By: Cristal YU
Developer Tools
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eBay OAuth Client Library in Python and Best Practices

To make it easier to integrate with eBay RESTful APIs, eBay provides client SDK libraries in C#, Java, and Python. Learn how to quickly set up the OAuth SDK in Python and learn about eBay OAuth best practices.

By: Catherine Wong
Performance Engineering
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eBay's Hyperscale Platforms

In the era of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud technology, data is growing exponentially. eBay data continues to grow, serving more than 182 million buyers and $13.4 billion of transactions completed on mobile devices. Understanding how to manage data is a key to success. System hardware platforms must be designed for the data.

By: Lam Dong

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It’s all about the code. High quality, efficient, elegant code that fuels the commerce revolution. Help create the infrastructure and applications that unlock more economic opportunity for millions of people every day. This is your chance to take on some of the most complex technical problems in service of making a tangible impact around the globe. Learn more about Engineering Careers.

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Architects build the future. You're a technologist with a passion to design systems and long-term software roadmaps for new and valuable technology programs. These drive value for our customers, our company and communities around the world. Here, you can architect the foundation that is transforming commerce. Learn more about Engineering Careers.

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It’s not right until you say so. Our Quality Engineers ensure that new releases work as expected for our customers, every time. Create end-to-end test plans and then execute them to validate that our solutions have met or exceeded all requirements and business objectives. You are the ultimate gatekeeper of the customer experience. Learn more about Engineering Careers.

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We can’t get there without a map. You will help define the strategy and vision for our technical solutions—building multi-generational product plans and roadmaps for an evolving and complex global product portfolio. Work with product and development teams to identify new ways to deliver exceptional experiences for consumers and merchants. Learn more about Engineering Careers.

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Distributed Systems
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NuRaft: a Lightweight C++ Raft Core

We are excited to announce the public release of NuRaft, a lightweight C++ Raft core, under the Apache 2.0 open source license. NuRaft is based on the cornerstone C++ Raft implementation, but with various additions and changes, and is the result of over two years of development and testing for production use within eBay for storage server data replication. This post discusses what NuRaft is, and how it can be used.

By: Gene Zhang and Jung-Sang Ahn
Performance Engineering
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Improving the Speed and Accuracy of the Item Page with Light Service

The item page is one of the most critical pages in the eBay buyer experience. It's where a buyer make their purchase decisions. It's also one of the pages in eBay that gets the most user traffic. The speed of this page and showing accurate information to the user is of great importance. Item fast light service was developed to get critical item information as quickly as possible from the primary source tables. This service is currently used in a number of applications to achieve functionalities that needs 100% accuracy with lightning speed and performance of less than 10ms for an item.

By: Ramesh Periyathambi
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