eBay announced that it is embarked on a ambitious three-year effort to replatform and modernize backend infrastructure and they will be using their own custom-designed servers, built by eBay, for eBay. The company also believes it can make eBay’s servers available to the public via open source in the fourth quarter of this year.
Mazen Rawashdeh, VP of Platform Engineering, eBay
Mazen Rawashdeh, VP of Platform Engineering, eBay said, “The replatforming of our backend infrastructure included designing our own hardware and AI-engine, decentralizing our cluster of data centers, moving to an edge computing architecture and leveraging the latest in open source technologies. Now, midway through our journey, we are already seeing meaningful results that offer greater predictability, more control and needed flexibility.”
Building servers specialized for the complex demands of our marketplace took intense research, testing across many eBay applications and partnerships with key hardware vendors. These servers cater to eBay’s specific needs, enable an improved customer experience, create greater efficiencies and reduce our dependence on third parties.
With 175 million active users and over 1.1 billion live listings on eBay, the infrastructure needed to manage its global marketplace is massive. While managing traffic and moving huge amounts of data are complex endeavors in themselves, the infrastructure that runs and maintains the platform is also a critical enabler of any future shopping experiences.
