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A Lightweight Distributed Architecture to Handle Thousands of Library Releases at eBay

A new lightweight distributed architecture is proposed and applied on eBay’s release system to support thousands of libraries release work in high efficiency.

By: Tao Jin and Paul Zhang
Tech Blog
eBay

eBay Named as a Best Place to Work in 2022 by Glassdoor

The annual award is based on employee reviews about key workplace factors, such as career opportunities, work/life balance and culture.

eBay News Team
eBay

21 for ‘21: The eBay Listings That Went Viral This Year

A look back at the rare, the unique and the exceptional items in 2021

Jordan Sweetnam, SVP & General Manager, North America
ebay entrepreneurship awards 2021
Seller Experience

Spotlighting the 2021 Winners of eBay’s Entrepreneurship Awards

eBay recognizes and honors our outstanding global sellers for their pioneering, entrepreneurial spirit.

eBay News Team
eBay Foundation

Black Girl Ventures On Celebrating Community

Our eBay Foundation grantee creates social and financial capital for Black and other women of color founders.

Jennifer Mattson, eBay News Team
eBay Foundation

Connecting Communities: Refugee Entrepreneurs

Our Global Give Grantee TERN is helping refugees thrive by giving them the business support they need.

Jennifer Mattson, eBay News Team
Engineering

GraphLoad: A Framework to Load and Update Over Ten-Billion-Vertex Graphs with Performance and Consistency

GraphLoad is a scalable graph loading framework eBay developed and deployed in production. It has been loading and updating a graph with over 15 billion vertices and over 20 billion edges since May 2020.

By: Tom Schweiger, Hieu Nguyen, Jun Li, Leo Hu and Sakilaa Gopalsamy
Tech Blog
Business

eBay Announces Change to Gross Merchandise Volume Definition and Releases Updated Historical Metrics

The company has changed its definition of Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) to align with customer money flows on its platforms

Press Release
Reunited

The Kindness of Strangers: A Jewish Bible Hidden During the Holocaust Finds its Way Home

How a few dedicated individuals came together to help one Jewish family reconnect with its past.

Mark Sullivan, eBay News Team
Engineering

eBay’s Mavenization Strategy of Legacy Domain Business Libraries

A brand new methodology to ameliorate the development and release process for eBay site business

By: Paul Zhang and Tao Jin
Tech Blog
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