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Developer Tools

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

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
Data Infrastructure and Services

Block Aggregator: Real-time Data Ingestion from Kafka to ClickHouse with Deterministic Retries

Learn about the message-processing engine eBay developed to avoid data loss or duplication during delivery from Kafka to ClickHouse.

By: Mohammad Roohitavaf and Jun Li
Hadoop

Optimizing Analytics Data Processing on eBay’s New Open-Source-Based Platform

See how eBay adopted a five-level tuning strategy for an in-house analytics tool to exceed a legacy vendor’s performance.

By: Rongguan Fu, Tianyou Li and Naveen Dhanpal
Hadoop

Unpacking eBay’s New SQL Authoring Tool for Data Creation and Management

Discover how eBay built a tool for data modeling, ETL and SQL editing to enhance our analytics platform.

By: Stanley Chen, Gavin Zhu and Valerie Steinbrugge
Hadoop

Explore eBay’s New Optimized Spark SQL Engine for Interactive Analysis

See how eBay created an optimized SQL solution to enhance speed, stability and scalability in service of a new open-source-based analytics platform.

By: Gang Ma, Lisa Li and Naveen Dhanpal
Developer Tools

AsyncAPI 2.0: Enabling the Event-Driven World

Learn about how eBay is standardizing on and publishing AsyncAPI Specification 2.0-based contracts for event notifications.

By: Shekhar Banerjee, Principal Architect

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From Vendor to In-house: How eBay Reimagined Its Analytics Landscape

Learn how eBay transitioned its analytics data platform from a vendor-based data warehouse to an open-source-based solution built by the team.

By: Medha Samant and Valerie Steinbrugge
Developer Tools

eBay Launches Targeted Auto Retry

eBay’s open source Swift package provides powerful resilience against flaky test steps.

By: Evan Pierce, MTS, Software Engineer
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