16 articles
Airbnb migrated its identity graph from third-party PaaS to an internally-managed knowledge graph infrastructure built on JanusGraph and DynamoDB.
This post explains how Airbnb eliminated circular dependencies in its observability stack to ensure reliable monitoring at scale.
Skipper is Airbnb's embedded workflow engine designed to enable durable execution of multi-step business processes without requiring external orchestration infrastructure.
Airbnb built a metrics storage system ingesting 50 million samples per second and storing 1.3 billion active time series.
This post details a production migration of a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry (OTLP) with Prometheus-based storage and vmagent for streaming aggregation.
This article tells the career story of Jonathan Woodard, a former professional NFL defensive end who transitioned into software engineering and joined Airbnb's Secure Development Engineering team.
Airbnb explains how COVID broke their booking-to-trip forecasting models and the architectural changes they built to handle structural data shifts.
Airbnb shares hard-won lessons from migrating its observability platform from third-party vendors to a custom in-house solution built on Prometheus across 1,000 services.
Airbnb describes how they built a destination recommendation model to help exploratory users in the trip planning stage discover and narrow down travel destinations.
Airbnb explains how they rebuilt their Observability as Code (OaC) alert development workflow to eliminate weeks-long validation cycles.
Airbnb recaps its 2025 academic research at KDD, CIKM, and EMNLP covering ML, NLP, and recommendation systems.
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.
A software engineering team lead at BBC Sounds shares leadership lessons learned over 4 years in the role.
BBC Engineering sets its vision to be as renowned for engineering quality as it is for its content.
BBC