Airbnb recaps its 2025 academic research at KDD, CIKM, and EMNLP covering ML, NLP, and recommendation systems.
This post describes how Airbnb built "Sitar," their internal dynamic configuration platform for shipping runtime config changes safely at scale.
Anna Sulkina, Senior Director of Engineering at Airbnb, shares her career journey from Soviet-era Ukraine to leading Application & Cloud Infrastructure.
This article traces the career journey of Peter Coles, Airbnb's Head Economist for Policy and Director of Data Science, from academia to tech industry leadership.
This post explains how Airbnb launched 20+ local payment methods (LPMs) across global markets in 14 months through architectural modernization.
Airbnb introduces @generateMock, a GraphQL client directive that uses LLMs to automatically generate realistic, type-safe mock data for testing and prototyping.
Airbnb evolved Mussel, its multi-tenant key-value store, from simple QPS rate limiting to an adaptive traffic management system to maximize goodput during traffic spikes.
Airbnb shares how they completely rearchitected Mussel, their internal key-value store for derived data, migrating from v1 to a NewSQL-based v2 running in production for over a year.
Airbnb's Viaduct data-oriented service mesh celebrates five years with an open-source release and a major architectural overhaul called "Viaduct Modern".
Airbnb introduces Viaduct, a data-oriented service mesh built on GraphQL that addresses the complexity of large-scale microservices dependency graphs.
Airbnb completed a 4.5-year migration of their JVM monorepo (tens of millions of lines of Java, Kotlin, and Scala) from Gradle to Bazel.
This post explains how Airbnb safely upgrades Istio across tens of thousands of pods on dozens of Kubernetes clusters without workload team coordination.
