Airbnb Engineering & Data Science

Personalizing Airbnb search by learning from the guest journey

How we built a Transformer-based sequence model that encodes years of guest behavior to surface the...

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AI/ML

From weeks to a day: how we made LLM evaluation...

Training an LLM is the easy part. The hard part is designing experiments and evaluations that...

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AI/ML

Problems We're Solving

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Recent Articles

Scaling beyond one: How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for...

How Airbnb’s data engineers and analytics engineers built a consistent and flexible data modeling framework to...

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Sitar-agent: Building a reliable dynamic configuration sidecar at scale

How Airbnb built a Kubernetes sidecar to deliver dynamic configuration reliably at scale.

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Infrastructure

When history fails you, borrow from geography

How Airbnb used sequential geographic recovery signals and prior propagation to generate reliable corridor-level forecasts when...

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Data

Scaling Airbnb’s identity graph with a unified knowledge graph infrastructure

How Airbnb shifts from PaaS to an internal knowledge graph infrastructure at scale.

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Infrastructure

Viaduct 1.0 and the future of Airbnb’s data mesh

Moving from an internal tool to a community-driven, production-ready data mesh.

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Infrastructure Open Source

Monitoring reliably at scale

Designing monitoring that works when everything else doesn’t.

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Infrastructure
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