Airbnb made it easy to bring data/AI ideas to life through a platform for prototyping web applications.By: Dan MillerWarm, friendly beach capturing the playful nature of prototyping.IntroductionTrustworthy data has always been a part of Airbnb’s technical DNA. However, it is challenging for our data scientists and ML practitioners to bring data- and...

Riverbed Data Hydration — Part 1by: Xiangmin Liang, Sivakumar Bhavanari, Amre ShakimA deep dive into the streaming aspect of the Lambda architecture framework that optimizes how data is consumed from system-of-record data stores and updates secondary read-optimized stores at Airbnb.OverviewIn our previous blog post we introduced the motivation and high-level...

By: Leo Wong, Henry JohnsonHow the Airbnb Media team built group travel Postcards for the 2024 Summer Release by leveraging a novel destination matching algorithm while advancing the platform’s image & localized text processing capabilities.Airbnb Postcards (see announcement).IntroductionFor Airbnb’s 2024 Summer Release, the Media Ingestion team...

An Important Foundation For Security, Privacy, and Compliance at AirbnbBy: Sam Kim, Alex Klimov, Woody Zhou, Sylvia Tomiyama, Aniket Arondekar, Ansuman AcharyaIntroductionAirbnb is built on trust. One key way we maintain trust with our community is by ensuring that personal data is handled with care, in a manner that meets security, privacy, and compliance...

Airbnb’s Use of A New Flink platform evolved from Apache Hadoop® YarnIntroductionAt Airbnb, Apache Flink was introduced in 2018 as a supplementary solution for stream processing. It ran alongside Apache Spark™ Streaming for several years before transitioning to become the primary stream processing platform. In this blog post, we will delve into the...

Incrementally modernizing our frontend infrastructure to roll out the latest React features without downgradesIntroductionAirbnb’s frontend recently reached a major milestone: all of our web surfaces have been upgraded from React 16 to React 18, the current major version of React¹. This was a big project for a product with many surfaces, including Guest...