Ishita Majumdar

Apr 19, 2021

From Vendor to In-House: How eBay reimagined its analytics landscape — Part Two

The first part of this series provided the background on why eBay decided to move from vendor to in-house for analytics and what the shift meant for the company. The second part will explore the new ecosystem and how the migration was executed. — By Ishita Majumdar, Medha Samant, Naveen Dhanpal Building the Hadoop-Spark Ecosystem The new ecosystem needed to provide the same capabilities as the existing one. End users’ tolerance for any degradation in experience was very low, and the transition had to be seamless. A detailed analysis yielded the following categories as crucial to providing a…

Data

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From Vendor to In-House: How eBay reimagined its analytics landscape — Part Two

Data

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Apr 13, 2021

From Vendor to In-House: How eBay reimagined its analytics landscape — Part One

For several years eBay relied on a vendor platform for analytics functions until recently when it shifted to an in-house platform. This two-part series explores why eBay decided to move out of a critical platform and how this complex shift was achieved. — By: Ishita Majumdar, Medha Samant, Naveen Dhanpal How did it begin? eBay’s journey with a commercial data warehousing platform began in 2003 and ended in 2021. During these years, the platform had steadily grown in size amassing over 20 Petabytes of data including behavioral and transactional data that includes bids, checkouts, listings, users, and…

EBay

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EBay

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