Randy Shoup of eBay discusses the evolution of eBay’s tech stack. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung speaks with Shoup about eBay’s origins as a single C++ class with an Oracle database, a five-year migration to multiple Java services, sharing a database between the old and new systems, building a distributed tracing system, working with bare metal, why most companies should stick to cloud, why individual services should own their own data storage, how scale has caused solutions to change, rejoining a former company, choosing what to work on first, the Accelerate Book, and improving delivery time.
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