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Improving eBay's Development Velocity
Randy Shoup and Mark Weinberg discuss breaking down silos, measuring software delivery, continually reducing build, startup, PR validation, and deployment time, embedding experts in product teams.
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Reinforcement Learning: Not Just for Robots and Games
Jibin Liu presents one of his projects at eBay where the team used RL to improve crawling of targeted web pages, starting from the basics of RL, then to why and how to use it to power web crawling.
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Scalable Chatbot Architecture with eBay ShopBot
Robert Enyedi discusses the ebay ShopBot, a personal shopping assistant available as a Facebook Messenger bot.
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Service Architectures at Scale: Lessons from Google and eBay
Randy Shoup discusses modern service architectures at scale, using specific examples from both Google and eBay. He covers some interesting lessons learned in building and operating these sites.
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Scalability Lessons from eBay, Google, and Real-time Games
Randy Shoup tells war stories from Google and eBay focusing on how to scale code, infrastructure, performance, and operations, along with hard-won lessons learned in scaling them.
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Everything I Learned About Scaling Online Games I Learned at Google and eBay: Scalability at KIXEYE
Randy Shoup shares war stories from eBay and Google about performance, consistency, iterative development, and autoscaling, connecting them with experiences building KIXEYE's gaming platform.
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Building Modern Web Sites: A Story of Scalability and Availability
Sid Anand uses examples from LinkedIn, Netflix, and eBay to discuss some common causes of outages and scaling issues. He also discusses modern practices in availability and scaling in web sites today.
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Dealing with Performance Challenges - Optimized Data Formats
Sastry Malladi discusses the performance implications of using various data formats and versioning across eBay, showing the results of certain benchmarks concluding that JSON is the best format.
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More Best Practices for Large-Scale Websites: Lessons from eBay
Randy Shoup: Partition Everything, Asynchrony Everywhere, Automate, Everything Fails, Embrace Inconsistency, Expect (R)evolution, Dependencies Matter, Respect Authority, Data, Custom Infrastructure.
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RESTful SOA in the Real World
Sastry Malladi presents different ways used by the industry to implement a RESTful SOA, detailing how eBay did it in order to achieve performance, and what lessons can be taken from that.
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SOA @ eBay: What Makes It Successful?
Malladi talks about challenges met while implementing large scale SOA deployments, giving eBay as an example of an efficient, extensible and scalable SOA platform with an automated governing process.
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Architecting for Latency
Dan Pritchett addresses latency issues in web applications that should be dealt with from the beginning when the system is designed.
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