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