Airbnb Engineering & Data Science

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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Data

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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Infrastructure

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My Journey to Airbnb — Jonathan Woodard

From defensive end to cloud security engineer, meet Jonathan Woodard.

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People

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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Data

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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Infrastructure

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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AI/ML

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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Infrastructure

Improving Search Ranking for Maps

How Airbnb is adapting ranking for our map interface.

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AI/ML
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