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While processing payment activity at scale, how do you change storage backends smoothly and without disruption? In this recent blog by @thetaprime, we share how @Etsy made this transition happen using @vitessio & #MySQL all while maintaining 100% uptime. etsy.me/41wgLqv

NEW § More lessons from Etsy's move to the cloud: @timcochran and @keyurdg discuss challenges, impact of pandemic, continuous improvement, and measuring cost and carbon usage. #WhatWereTheChallengesOfTheCloud" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

NEW POST: As a scaleup grows, it has to deal with increased traffic, often uneven. @timcochran and @keyurdg describe how Etsy faced this, and moved its systems to the cloud. This helped cope with its user base doubling during covid martinfowler.com/articles/bottl…

@Etsy’s new neural ranking lifecycle cut our iteration time & time-to-deploy in HALF, but getting there wasn’t easy. Senior Applied Scientist Lucia Yu shares how Etsy’s search ranking team successfully upgraded from a decision tree to #deeplearning. bit.ly/3EzMzBD

Don’t believe in love at first sight? Wait until you get a look at our updated blog. Tales from our #engineering team are more easily accessible than ever before. Jump in & let us know what you think! etsy.me/3sEHh1D

Etsy is creating a new role for a Director of SRE: careers.etsy.com/global/en/job/… If being a manager-of-SRE-managers is a thing that gets you motivated and you want to help shape SRE practices, give this role a peek!

After many years of warning people to not use MMAP as a buffer pool in their databases, our "Never use MMAP in Your Database" @cidrdb paper + video is finally available. #CIDR2022 db.cs.cmu.edu/mmap-cidr2022/

All of this was possible by the work of @CodeasCraft engineers. Check out our careers page (careers.etsy.com) if you are interested in helping us scale.

We were proud to support Etsy's sellers and buyers during the 2021 Cyber 5. Thanks to our teams of engineers and our partners at @GoogleCloud we saw no incidents or degradation of service during this massive scale event. A few interesting stats:

Etsy’s move to ES6 in 2020 improved our codebase and JavaScript performance, but some problems persisted. Enter Typescript. Check out this post on how the Web Platform team brought Typescript to our monorepo and encouraged adoption among engineers. codeascraft.com/2021/11/08/ets…

@passportsevamea Could you provide an update on Global Entry ARN 21-2000708906 GES Application ID 39598979? It has been pending for 6+ months. Thank you!

@passportsevamea Could you provide an update on Global Entry ARN 21-2000708906 GES Application ID 39598979? It has been pending for 6+ months. Thank you!

How we made our bidding system for ads at Etsy a lot smarter -- this was one of the most fun projects I was involved with in 2020. codeascraft.com/2021/03/23/how…

I wrote something about Etsy in 2020, about the capacity of our communities, and our approach to architecture codeascraft.com/2021/02/25/how…

I’m hiring an Engineering Director to lead Trust and Safety Engineering at Etsy. Come join us in helping keep the millions of sellers and buyers on the marketplace safe! careers.etsy.com/global/en/job/…

The LISA '21 CFP closes tomorrow! There are tons of very smart people who follow me. The conference is virtual this year and we'd love to hear from you! usenix.org/conference/lis…

@Etsy is growing our Dublin team! We’re excited to attend @DubTechSummit where we’ll not only meet future teammates, but also hear @krutipie & @chelseeee weigh in on top tech challenges and opportunities. Will we see you there on October 14th? #DTSPartner

Cloud infrastructure is amazing... until you want to measure your energy use. See how Etsy’s collaborative Sustainable Task Force developed a metric for measuring #cloud computing energy consumption: Cloud Jewels. #cloudjewels #sustainablecomputing codeascraft.com/2020/04/23/clo…

Hello weekend Twitter! Our DB team is still doing interviews for both an engineer and a manager. We're fully remote across the US. DM for more info! Engineer: etsy.com/careers/job/e2… Manager: etsy.com/careers/job/56…

Curious how we measure product cannibalization on our platform? Check out this #CausalInference study by @xyin100 and Ercan Yildiz to learn more: codeascraft.com/2020/02/24/the…