Life at Airbnb
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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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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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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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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Monitoring reliably at scale
Designing monitoring that works when everything else doesn’t.
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Skipper: Building Airbnb’s embedded workflow engine
How Airbnb built a lightweight workflow engine to solve durable execution.
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Building a fault-tolerant metrics storage system at Airbnb
How we built a storage system that ingests 50 million samples per second and stores 2.5...
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Privacy-first connections: Empowering social experiences at Airbnb
Discover how Airbnb prioritizes user privacy while building a more connected community, empowering guests to engage...
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Building a high-volume metrics pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent
A production-tested approach for moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
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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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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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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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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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