Top stories published by The PayPal Technology Blog in 2014

PayPal’s latest addition to the roster of products taking advantage of PayPal REST API technology gives developers easier access to notifications of payment activities, such as payment status updates. PayPal webhooks…

PayPal Tech Blog Team in The PayPal Technology Blog

Sep 5, 2014

Introducing an Accessible HTML5 Video Player

Video on the web has come a long way over the years. From applets to RealPlayer (who remembers that?) to QuickTime to Flash, and now the HTML Video element.

PayPal Tech Blog Team in The PayPal Technology Blog

Jul 8, 2014

Subscriptions are Now Available in the PayPal REST APIs

As of today, I am happy to announce that subscription models (what we call billing plans and agreements) have launched as our newest piece of functionality in the PayPal REST APIs.

PayPal Tech Blog Team in The PayPal Technology Blog

Sep 18, 2014

Nemo.js: PayPal’s open source node.js automation framework

Nemo.js came about as a response to the adoption of krakenjs within PayPal. Writing automation in JavaScript made sense for a variety of reasons: involving web application engineers in the automation process, executing tests in a…

PayPal Tech Blog Team in The PayPal Technology Blog

Apr 1, 2014

Outbound SSL Performance in Node.js

When browsing the internet, we all know that employing encryption via SSL is extremely important. At PayPal, security is our top priority. We use end-to-end encryption, not only for our public website, but for all our internal service calls as well. SSL encrypton…

PayPal Tech Blog Team in The PayPal Technology Blog

Jul 27, 2014

Creating and Processing an order using the PayPal REST APIs

I am happy to announce that we’ve added the ability to create and process an order to the PayPal REST APIs.

Getting Started

PayPal Tech Blog Team in The PayPal Technology Blog

Sep 19, 2014

Alternative Design for Versioning of Services — Chain of Responsibility

Change is inevitable and interfaces (particularly of remote services) are no exception. Such interfaces go through various revisions for reasons such as enhanced features, bug fixes and so on. One must use…

PayPal Tech Blog Team in The PayPal Technology Blog

Oct 3, 2014

Building Data Science at Scale

As part of the Boston-based Engineering group, the Data Science team’s charter is to enable science-based personalization and recommendation for PayPal’s global users. As companies of all sizes are starting to leverage their data assets, data science has become indispensable…

PayPal Tech Blog Team in The PayPal Technology Blog

Mar 3, 2014

Open sourcing kraken.js

It wasn’t far into our move to node.js that we began to notice an opportunity to contribute back to the community. There were plenty of web application frameworks out there, but items like localization, country adaption, security, and scalability for large development teams were largely…

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