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Academic Publications & Airbnb Tech: 2025 Year in Review -- Listen Share 2025 was a big year for research at Airbnb, as we made significant progress toward our mission to use AI, data science, and machine learning to become the best travel and living platform. Specifically, we d…
Safeguarding Dynamic Configuration Changes at Scale How Airbnb ships dynamic config changes safely and reliably -- 4 Listen Share By Cosmo Qiu, Bo Teng, Siyuan Zhou, Ankur Soni, Willis Harvey Dynamic configuration is a core infrastructure capability in modern systems. It allows…
My Journey to Airbnb — Anna Sulkina -- Listen Share Anna Sulkina has always been a traveler, and we’re lucky her travels have brought her to Airbnb. Anna is a Senior Director of Engineering, and she’s responsible for Application & Cloud infrastructure. She brings over two decade…
My Journey to Airbnb: Peter Coles -- Listen Share Public school to PhD The story of Airbnb’s Head Economist for Policy and Director of Data Science involves geology, co-teaching with a Nobel Prize winner, and CSI. (No, not the hit TV franchise.) Peter Coles was born and raised i…
Pay As a Local -- 1 Listen Share How Airbnb rolled out 20+ locally relevant payment methods worldwide in just 14 months By: Gerum Haile, Bo Shi, Yujia Liu, Yanwei Bai, Bo Yuan, Rory MacQueen, Yixia Mao Across the more than 220 global markets that Airbnb operates in, cards are th…
GraphQL Data Mocking at Scale with LLMs and @generateMock -- Listen Share How Airbnb combines GraphQL infra, product context, and LLMs to generate and maintain convincing, type-safe mock data using a new directive. Introduction Producing valid and realistic mock data for testing…
From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s Key-Value Store -- 1 Listen Share How Airbnb hardened Mussel, our key-value store, with smarter traffic controls to stay fast and reliable during traffic spikes. By Shravan Gaonkar, Casey Getz, Wonhee Cho Intro…
Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb -- 1 Listen Share How we completely rearchitected Mussel, our storage engine for derived data, and lessons learned from the migration from Mussel V1 to V2. By Shravan Gaonkar, Chandramouli Rangarajan, Yanhan Zhang How we compl…
Viaduct, Five Years On: Modernizing the Data-Oriented Service Mesh A more powerful engine and a simpler API for our data-oriented mesh -- Listen Share By: Adam Miskiewicz, Raymie Stata In November 2020 we published a post about Viaduct, our data-oriented service mesh. Today, we’…
Migrating Airbnb’s JVM Monorepo to Bazel -- 1 Listen Share By: Jack Dai, Howard Ho, Loc Dinh, Stepan Goncharov, Ted Tenedorio, and Thomas Bao At Airbnb, we recently completed migrating our largest repo, the JVM monorepo, to Bazel. This repo contains tens of millions of lines of…
Taming Service-Oriented Architecture Using A Data-Oriented Service Mesh -- 3 Listen Share Introducing Viaduct, Airbnb’s data-oriented service mesh By: Raymie Stata, Arun Vijayvergiya, Adam Miskiewicz At Hasura’s Enterprise GraphQL Conf on October 22, we presented Viaduct, what w…