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Engineering

How eBay Made Its New Accessibility Tool — And Made It Available to All

Several eBay teams worked together to create a plug-in that makes it easy to include accessibility in a design right from the start.

By: Dan Nosowitz
Tech Blog
eBay Motors

eBay Motors Launches New Purchase Protections for Auto Parts & Accessories

With eBay Guaranteed Fit, shoppers can discover and purchase the right car, truck, and motorcycle parts to fit their vehicle – or their money back.

Press Release
Engineering

eBay's Notification Streaming Platform: How eBay Handles Real-Time Push Notifications at Scale

A case study demonstrates how eBay's Notification Engineering team optimizes a streaming system in a microservice architecture to support high-throughput broadcast notifications.

By: Xiaoye Wang
Tech Blog
eBay

The Apple-1 Computer, a Vintage Tech Grail That Ignited the World of Personal Computing

Only a few dozen of the computers are known to exist in the world today. And recently on eBay, one sold for about $340,000 at auction by Dubai seller Jimmy Grewal.

eBay News Team
Product

eBay Launches Live Shopping for Collectibles

New live shopping platform, eBay Live, lets enthusiasts discover, chat and purchase instantly, from anywhere in the world. Inaugural event kicks off with trading card expert DJ Skee and top eBay seller Bleecker Trading.

Press Release
Engineering

Multi-Relevance Ranking Model for Similar Item Recommendation

Buyers reveal a whole range of behaviors and interests when they browse our pages, so we decided to incorporate these additional purchase intent signals into our machine learning model to improve the relevance of our recommended items.

By: Chen Xue, Rachel Vishnepolsky and Zhen Ge
Tech Blog
Engineering

OpenFeature, With Contributions From eBay, Submitted to CNCF's Sandbox Program

The new open feature flagging standard enables companies to deliver cloud-native applications more effectively.

By: Justin Abrahms, Principal Architect, Chair of eBay's Open Source Program
Tech Blog
Engineering

eBay’s 3rd University Machine Learning Competition: Predicting Shipping Delivery Dates

For our annual ML competition, we challenged university students to predict how many days a carrier takes to deliver packages.

By: Uwe Mayer, Senior Applied Researcher
Tech Blog
Engineering

Improving Shopping Recommendations for Customers Through eBay’s Relevance Cascade Model

Under the new machine learning model, buyers are recommended items that are more aligned to their shopping interests on eBay.

By: Chen Xue, Applied Researcher
Tech Blog
Engineering

Building a Deep Learning Based Retrieval System for Personalized Recommendations

A step-by-step guide on how to build a state-of-the-art recommender system in an industrial setting.

By: Yuri M. Brovman
Tech Blog