Etsy Engineering11 min readJun 7, 2024

Efficient Visual Representation Learning And Evaluation

Etsy features a diverse marketplace of unique handmade and vintage items. It’s a visually diverse marketplace as well, and computer vision has become increasingly important to Etsy as a way of enhanci

Computer VisionVisual Representation LearningEfficient LearningMachine Learning Evaluation

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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...

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MySQLVitessKubernetesDatabase ShardingLarge Scale SystemMicroservicesDatabase Architecture

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Efficient Visual Representation Learning And Evaluation

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

Migrating Etsy’s database sharding to Vitess

How Etsy Uses LLMs to Improve Search Relevance