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Jan 10

Adding Vibrancy to Prosaicness — 2021 Reading List

2021 has gone in a swift. Another year into the pandemic, many of us feel that life is becoming prosaic. There are many ways to bring back the vibrancy, and one such is good books. Continuing with my three-year tradition, publishing the list of books that I thoroughly enjoyed and…

Books

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Adding Vibrancy to Prosaicness — 2021 Reading List
Adding Vibrancy to Prosaicness — 2021 Reading List

Published in eBayTech

·Dec 8, 2021

The Staging Dichotomy: Part Two

A two-part series on how eBay turned around an impeding staging environment into its biggest asset for developer productivity. — 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…

Developer Productivity

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The Staging Dichotomy: Part Two
The Staging Dichotomy: Part Two

Published in eBayTech

·Dec 6, 2021

The Staging Dichotomy: Part One

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 role in its associated fields. When it comes to software development, staging is the environment where…

Developer Productivity

13 min read

The Staging Dichotomy: Part One
The Staging Dichotomy: Part One

Dec 15, 2020

A Trusted Companion of 2020 — Books

For the last two years, I have been publishing a list of books that I genuinely find impactful. But 2020, like many, has been quite different for me. This year profoundly made me realize how valuable books can be in your life. With everything happening around you, good books tend…

Self Improvement

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A Trusted Companion of 2020 — Books
A Trusted Companion of 2020 — Books

Published in eBayTech

·Aug 25, 2020

Building a Product Catalog: eBay’s 2nd Annual University Machine Learning Competition

Participating universities will structure listing data to help solve a real-world ecommerce challenge. — After last year’s success, eBay is once again hosting a machine learning competition on an ecommerce dataset of eBay listings. This challenge is open to college and university students, and the winning team* will be offered a 2021 summer internship with eBay. We invite students to start using our dataset…

Machine Learning

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Building a Product Catalog: eBay’s 2nd Annual University Machine Learning Competition
Building a Product Catalog: eBay’s 2nd Annual University Machine Learning Competition

Published in eBayTech

·May 18, 2020

Building a Product Catalog: What we Learned from our University Machine Learning Competition

We challenged more than 100 college students at seven universities to structure listing data using AI and machine learning. — At eBay, we use state-of-the-art machine learning (ML), statistical modeling and inference, knowledge graphs, and other advanced technologies to solve business problems associated with massive amounts of data, much of which enters our system unstructured, incomplete, and sometimes, incorrect. To help surface fresh ideas on how we can solve this…

Internships

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Building a Product Catalog: What we Learned from our University Machine Learning Competition
Building a Product Catalog: What we Learned from our University Machine Learning Competition

Published in eBayTech

·Jan 23, 2020

Speed By A Thousand Cuts

Death by a thousand cuts is a popular figure of speech that refers to a failure that occurs as a result of many small problems. It has a negative connotation to it and is referenced on many occasions when things go wrong, and there is no one primary reason to…

User Experience

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Speed By A Thousand Cuts
Speed By A Thousand Cuts

Dec 17, 2019

The Best of Books and Food in 2019

In 2018 I published my first reading list. Another year has swiftly elapsed. Continuing with the tradition, I am posting the 2019 list of non-fiction books that I thoroughly enjoyed and found genuinely impactful. Like last year, the list includes a wide range of topics that empowers you to understand…

Books

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The Best of Books and Food in 2019
The Best of Books and Food in 2019

Published in eBayTech

·Oct 16, 2019

Building a Product Catalog: eBay’s University Machine Learning Competition

Trade has played a critical role in the history of humanity and yet, data from ecommerce, the modern form of trading, has received limited attention from academia. We at eBay want to change that. At eBay, we use state-of-the-art machine learning (ML), statistical modeling and inference, knowledge graphs, and other…

Machine Learning

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Building a Product Catalog: eBay’s University Machine Learning Competition
Building a Product Catalog: eBay’s University Machine Learning Competition

Published in eBayTech

·May 8, 2019

WebAssembly at eBay: A Real-World Use Case

By Senthil Padmanabhan and Pranav Jha From the time it was announced, WebAssembly caused a huge buzz in the front-end world. The web community readily embraced the idea of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. Above all WebAssembly consistently guarantees…

Java Script

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WebAssembly at eBay: A Real-World Use Case
WebAssembly at eBay: A Real-World Use Case
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