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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…