Airbnb Engineering & Data Science

My Journey to Airbnb — Jonathan Woodard

From defensive end to cloud security engineer, meet Jonathan Woodard.

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What COVID did to our forecasting models (and what we...

How Airbnb built forecasting models resilient enough to survive a global pandemic and whatever shock comes...

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Data

Recent Articles

From vendors to vanguard: Airbnb’s hard-won lessons in observability ownership

How a complex, large-scale migration to an in-house observability platform led to superior tooling, consistent data,...

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Infrastructure

Recommending Travel Destinations to Help Users Explore

How we built a destination recommendation model that helps users spark inspiration and narrow down choices...

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AI/ML

It Wasn’t a Culture Problem: Upleveling Alert Development at Airbnb

How we changed our Observability as Code alert review process and cut development cycles from weeks...

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Infrastructure

Improving Search Ranking for Maps

How Airbnb is adapting ranking for our map interface.

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AI/ML

Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb

How we completely rearchitected Mussel, our storage engine for derived data, and lessons learned from the...

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Infrastructure

From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s...

How Airbnb hardened Mussel, our key-value store, with smarter traffic controls to stay fast and reliable...

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Infrastructure
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