Ebay Platform Group PDF

The document introduces the Platform Group at eBay and provides an overview of their work. It describes how the Platform Group builds infrastructure software to support eBay's operations, including search backends, messaging platforms, developer tooling, and security systems. It also lists several internal teams within the Platform Group and summarizes some of their current projects, such as building a next-generation cloud management system and security software for eBay's cloud.

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Introducing:

System, Search Backend and Analytics Platform Development Biography

Presented By:

eBay Talent Acquisition

By: John Penick

The Platform Group

, Inc.
At eBay, our systems scale to billions of transactions per day, and we run our site 24x7 with 99.99% reliability. We have more than 30 million lines of J2EE / Java based source code. We are leaders in cloud computing, SOA, search, and many other specialties. We love technology, open source, and interacting with the industry. Our employees are friendly, caring people who form great teams, and who understand how to be world class engineers and still have fun and work-life balance. With more than 94 million active users globally, eBay is the world's largest online marketplace, where anyone can buy and sell practically anything. Founded in 1995, eBay connects a diverse and passionate community of individual buyers and sellers, as well as small businesses. Their collective impact on e-commerce is staggering: In 2010, the total worth of goods sold on eBay was $62 billion -- more than $2,000 every second. For the latest stories about eBay, including recent financial performance, visit our News Room.

Platform Group Directive :

As a team, we have given Java One presentations, influenced the development of IBMs Geronimo container, and contributed to Apache projects. We are experts in Java and concurrent programming who are proud of our internals knowledge, technology breadth, and intellectual curiosity. We thrive on performance challenges, and are constantly looking for new tools, processes, and programming patterns to do our job better.

Platform Group:

The Cloud Platform Team latest challenge is to build the next generation cloud software application management systems for all of eBay. This will allow a user to organize and structure thousands machines and turn them into a working cluster without human intervention. In addition, our system will detect and remediate faults within the cloud of machines. The Messaging Platform Team designed the software that delivers well over 1 billion messages a day with guaranteed delivery. But that's not enough. The team is developing the next generation system to support even bigger volumes and still be highly scalable, extremely reliable and support low latencies. The Experience team is building the next generation developer tooling to support the next generation eBay platform. This team is also building key pieces of the next gen eBay platform Build, package and deploy. They are using cutting edge technologies in developing these systems. The new tooling and build systems aim at revolutionizing the way development is done at eBay. The Experimentation Platform Group at eBay is key infrastructure software that enables eBay to test, iterate, and validate the impact of innovation through cutting edge experimental and analytical techniques. The Kernel Platform Team provides eBays foundation software stack. Their latest challenge is to drive internal adoption of OSGi based modularity for eBays software, to provide world class dependency management and clean isolation of experiments from hardened code. Well drive changes in the eBay codebase to make it OSGi compatible, and to make it ready for Linux and our internal Cloud. The Security Platform team provides eBays foundational security software infrastructure. The teams latest challenges include developing security software for eBays Cloud and providing the next generation of real time security software infrastructure to protect the eBay site from attacks and sense vulnerabilities. This group is also responsible for eBays SOA security infrastructure, as well as eBays advanced runtime software security artifact management system for a site of 14,000+ Java application servers. The User Behavior Intelligence Group within Analytics, Platform and Deliver (APD) group at eBay is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing user behavior analytics (click stream) data into Massive Parallel Processing clusters application for Web Analytics. The Cloud Presentation Platform is responsible for developing the infrastructure that powers one of the largest ecommerce platforms. This group is continually looking to evolve platform development to conform to the new emerging presentation standards. The Framework team provides eBays foundation software stack. The teams latest challenge is to drive internal adoption of OSGi based modularity for eBays software, to provide world class dependency management and clean isolation of experiments from hardened code. The Real Time Messaging (RTM) enables eBay to target, serve, track, report and optimize contents for Merchandising, Advertising and other messaging needs like Incentives (Rewards, Coupons, etc) on eBay sites, emails and mobile app. RTM is also leveraged to serve other personalized content and messaging for pages like Resolutions, Customer Support, etc. The Services Platform team provides the platform that enables end2end services lifecycle at eBay, be it development of services, consumption or operationalization. With hundreds of discrete applications running in a distributed environment and hundreds more getting built, eBay continues to push the limit of Service Oriented Architecture. Our open source SOA stack (http://turmeric) is used to drive 200+ services handling 10+ billion calls per day. The Pictures Platform team develops highly distributed software infrastructure supporting image uploads, caching, compression, retrievals, life cycle management and other functionalities for eBays internal and external clients. It serves as a backbone for most of eBay's products and services that have imaging needs. The Search Backend Team develops and supports eBay search engine; we are in the process to build our next generation search engine Cassini from scratch; we utilize the latest technologies such as hadoop to process terabytes of data every day, gigabytes of data and millions events every hour to achieve real-time indexing; we work with our partner teams from selling, shipping, research organizations, and we will continue deliver new features and support our eBay users as the center of buying and selling on eBay.com.

Interested in becoming part of the Platform team?

What we are looking for:

Commitment, common sense, passion for quality, intellect, and great people skills are at the top of what were looking for. Extremely thorough knowledge of Java, concurrency, systems programming, and computer science fundamentals is an absolute requirement, and we will screen carefully for this. You should have experience in developing software in stringent 24x7 environments, especially for large web operation. You should be flexible in taking tasks ranging from support to intricate coding. And you should be results and customer focused because great business results is what eBay and this team are about.