How do we take architectural decisions in eBay Classifieds Group

Description

Designing and building distributed systems is challenging. It does, however, get enormously complex when you try to build a platform with the collaboration of hundreds of people across different time zones. The eBay Classified Group is building a leading online platform that’s adaptable to the requirements of marketplaces all around the world. Each local market has its own requirements and working methodologies as well as existing user base. Integrating a platform that already has millions of users is an enormous challenge, which requires discipline as well as magnificent planning.

Engin Yöyen highlights eBay’s insights, principles, and practices that it employed while working with product management and cross-functional teams spread around the globe. He shares the company’s real-world experiences of making agricultural decisions, collaborating across time zones, centralizing software solutions, anticipating bottlenecks and embracing for it, and encouraging engineers to make an architectural decision.