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Announcing Etsy's New API
Today I’m pleased to announce the pilot program of Etsy’s new read-write API, version 2. For a few months now, we’ve made veiled references to “the next version of the API” in response to bugs and...
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Etsy API Handmade Code Contest: Update #2 – Judging is happening!
Note: This is an update to the original post from September 15th which is listed below. We are very happy to announce that Tarikh Korula, founder of Uncommon Projects is joining our final judging...
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Handmade Code Contest Update–Finalists have been selected!
Note: This is the third update to the original post from September 15th. Four finalists in each category (buyer tools, seller tools, mobile) have been notified and the final round of judging is...
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Etsy Handmade Code Contest Winners
Wow! Judging took a lot longer, and was a lot harder than we expected. In all, there were 34 eligible entries. We were especially happy to have 8 mobile entries, spanning the gamut from iPhone/iPad...
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Introducing Getsy, A Secure Command Line Interface to the Etsy API
Some of the most productive tools out there come from the command line and so when you’re testing REST-based requests it makes a lot of sense to use the command line tool curl. But since the OAuth...
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Hacking Hardware with Etsy
UPDATE: We were blown away by the response at Maker Faire Detroit, with over 800 people playing Whack-A-Treasury! We also received three Editor’s Choice ribbons from the editors of Make: magazine!...
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Etsy at Photo Hack Day!
Our friends at Aviary are organizing a ginormous Photo Hack Day this Saturday the 20th, and we’re psyched to be there! What makes this hack day so amazing? The winning hack will be featured on the...
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API First Transformation at Etsy – Concurrency
At Etsy we have been doing some pioneering work with our Web APIs. We switched to API-first design, have experimented with concurrency handling in our composition layer, introduced strong typing into...
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API First Transformation at Etsy – Operations
This is the second post in a series of three about Etsy’s API, the abstract interface to our logic and data. The previous post is about concurrency in Etsy’s API infrastructure. This post covers the...
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Executing a Sunset
We all know how exciting it is to build new products, the thrill of a pile of new ideas waiting to be tested, new customers to reach, knotty problems to solve, and dreams of upward-sloping graphs. But...
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