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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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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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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Pay as a Local
How Airbnb rolled out 20+ locally relevant payment methods worldwide in just 14 months
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Academic Publications & Airbnb Tech: 2025 Year in Review
2025 was a big year for research at Airbnb, as we made significant progress toward our...
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Safeguarding Dynamic Configuration Changes at Scale
How Airbnb ships dynamic config changes safely and reliably
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My Journey to Airbnb — Anna Sulkina
Anna Sulkina has always been a traveler, and we’re lucky her travels have brought her to...
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My Journey to Airbnb: Peter Coles
The story of Airbnb’s Head Economist for Policy and Director of Data Science involves geology, co-teaching...
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GraphQL Data Mocking at Scale with LLMs and @generateMock
How Airbnb combines GraphQL infra, product context, and LLMs to generate and maintain convincing, type-safe mock...
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Viaduct, Five Years On: Modernizing the Data-Oriented Service Mesh
A more powerful engine and a simpler API for our data-oriented mesh
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Migrating Airbnb’s JVM Monorepo to Bazel
How we completed migrating our largest repo, the JVM monorepo, to Bazel.
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Seamless Istio Upgrades at Scale
How Airbnb upgrades tens of thousands of pods on dozens of Kubernetes clusters to new Istio...
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Achieving High Availability with distributed database on Kubernetes at Airbnb
How to achieve high availability with distributed database on Kubernetes.
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Understanding and Improving SwiftUI Performance
New techniques we’re using at Airbnb to improve and maintain performance of SwiftUI features at scale
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Load Testing with Impulse at Airbnb
Comprehensive Load Testing with Load Generator, Dependency Mocker, Traffic Collector, and More
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Listening, Learning, and Helping at Scale: How Machine Learning Transforms...
A look into how Airbnb uses speech recognition, intent detection, and language models to understand users...
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Accelerating Large-Scale Test Migration with LLMs
How Airbnb migrated nearly 3.5K Enzyme test files to React Testing Library in just 6 weeks...
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Embedding-Based Retrieval for Airbnb Search
Our journey in applying embedding-based retrieval techniques to build an accurate and scalable candidate retrieval system...
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How Airbnb Measures Listing Lifetime Value
A deep dive on the framework that lets us identify the most valuable listings for our...
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My Journey to Airbnb — Michael Kinoti
Saying no to med school and following a dream all the way to Silicon Valley
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My Journey to Airbnb — Veerabahu Chandran
Learning and growing in Airbnb’s new Bangalore Tech Center
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My Journey to Airbnb — Florian Andes
From building airplanes to Staff Technical Program Manager at Airbnb
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