Category: Engineering

eBay is where the world goes to shop, sell and give, from securing great deals to discovering unique finds. With 20 million active sellers hosting 1.7 billion live listings, application program interfaces, or APIs, are crucial to the success of our marketplace. Whether by surfacing targeted inventory, streamlining payments and shipping, or even enabling shoppers […]

For nearly two decades, eBay has been offering APIs that support a vast network of buyers and sellers. They’re part of the magic of eBay, and they are how we connect people in our global marketplace. eBay’s Buy APIs are some of the most powerful tools in our API portfolio. They substantially increase the inventory […]

​​eBay’s coded coupons tool is one of the newest products available for sellers to drive buyers to come back and purchase more items from their store. The tool allows more flexibility and control in offering discounts to prospective buyers, both on and off our marketplace.  With this new feature, sellers can create their own, custom […]

As large-scale distributed microservice systems continue to power more of today’s businesses, it has become even more important to detect any anomalies in these systems and efficiently diagnose their root causes to ensure high system availability.  To diagnose any root causes, existing approaches have usually consisted of capturing information about the state of the system […]

How fast an item will arrive can be a major factor in whether a buyer will make a purchase online. As part of our overall reimagination of our marketplace, we are helping our sellers ship items faster and more accurately predict when they will arrive for buyers. Over the summer, we updated our shipping rate […]

This March, eBay launched a new event notification platform to push event notifications to developers. Event notifications update applications and users about events on the eBay site, and help reduce the number of API calls an application has to make to retrieve information. The new platform supports multiple payload schema versions, and enables message integrity […]

We create various internal user interface (UI) applications with React inside eBay. Modals, or pop-ups, are widely used to build these complex UI apps. They open a separate window to provide additional information for users, and act similar to a user opening a new browser window — except, with modals, a user can’t leave it […]

eBay’s NuData [1] database platform is built from the ground up to be a cloud-native, distributed, highly scalable and performant. We not only adopted state-of-the-art technologies to overcome the technical challenges that come with building a database platform at this scale, but we also invested heavily in operationalizing it, with capabilities of self-serving, monitoring and […]

Editor’s Note: A two-part series on how eBay turned around an impeding staging environment into its biggest asset for developer productivity. The act of staging either in plays, real estate or software development has been an industry practice for many decades. The staging methods have evolved over the years and continue to play a critical […]

This is the final installment of our two-part series on how eBay turned around an impeding staging environment into its biggest asset for developer productivity. In our first article, we explored if staging should exist, and  explained why we decided to pursue staging. We also outlined our problem statements and discussed how we addressed the […]