Search, Ads, Recs
Building a Platform for Serving Recommendations at Etsy
With a catalog of more than 100 million magical listings, Etsy extensively relies on software infrastructure and machine learning...
Cédric Blondeau
Mar 23, 2022
Redesigning Etsy’s Machine Learning Platform
Introduction Etsy leverages machine learning (ML) to create personalized experiences for our millions of buyers around the world...
Kyle Gallatin
Dec 21, 2021
How We Built A Context-Specific Bidding System for Etsy Ads
Etsy Ads is an on-site advertising product that gives Etsy sellers the opportunity to promote their handcrafted goods to buyers...
Alaa Awad
Mar 23, 2021
Bringing Personalized Search to Etsy
The Etsy marketplace brings together shoppers and independent sellers from all over the world. Our unconventional inventory presents...
Lucia Yu
Oct 29, 2020
Understand the role of Style in e-commerce shopping
Aesthetic style is key to many purchasing decisions. When considering an item for purchase, buyers need to be aligned not only...
Aakash Sabharwal
Aug 2, 2019
Modeling Spelling Correction for Search at Etsy
Introduction When a user searches for an item on Etsy, they don't always type what they mean. Sometimes they type the query jewlery...
Mohit Nayyar
May 1, 2017
How Etsy Uses Thermodynamics to Help You Search
Etsy shoppers love the large and diverse selection of our marketplace. But, for those who don’t know exactly what they’re...
Fiona Condon
Aug 31, 2015
Personalized Recommendations at Etsy
Providing personalized recommendations is important to our online marketplace. It benefits both buyers and sellers: buyers are...
Robert Hall
Nov 17, 2014
Conjecture: Scalable Machine Learning in Hadoop with Scalding
Intro Predictive machine learning models are an important tool for many aspects of e-commerce. At Etsy, we use machine learning...
jattenberg
Jun 18, 2014
Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent
Note: In 2020 we updated this post to adopt more inclusive language. Going forward, we'll use "primary/replica" in our Code as...
David Giffin
Jan 23, 2012