Etsy Engineering7 min readJan 28, 2025

Adopting Jetpack Compose for Etsy’s Android App

One of our Guiding Principles at Etsy is that we “commit to our craft.” This means that we have a culture of learning, in which we’re constantly looking for opportunities to improve and learn, adopt i

Distributed Systems

Jetpack ComposeAndroidUI/UX DesignPlatform Migration

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Making Ads Count: Using MMoE and Auxiliary Tasks to Better Connect Buyers & Sellers

When buyers search on Etsy, they need to quickly and easily find the perfect item. At the same time, sellers need to be confident their unique products are...

Etsy Engineering11 min18d ago

Migrating Etsy’s database sharding to Vitess

Etsy has maintained a sharded MySQL architecture since around 2010. This database cluster contains most of Etsy’s online data and is made up of ~1,000 tables...

Distributed SystemsDatabases

MySQLVitessKubernetesDatabase ShardingLarge Scale SystemMicroservicesDatabase Architecture

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Adopting Jetpack Compose for Etsy’s Android App

Making Ads Count: Using MMoE and Auxiliary Tasks to Better Connect Buyers & Sellers

Migrating Etsy’s database sharding to Vitess

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