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Supporting Dynamic Type at Airbnb

Supporting Dynamic Type at Airbnb

An overview of process, tips, and pitfalls we learned while bringing Dynamic Type to Airbnb.
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Noah Martin
Amenity Detection and Beyond — New Frontiers of Computer Vision at Airbnb

Amenity Detection and Beyond — New Frontiers of Computer Vision at Airbnb

Build highly customized AI technologies into home-sharing products and help our guests belong anywhere.
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Shijing Yao
Adding support for Arabic and Hebrew languages on Airbnb

Adding support for Arabic and Hebrew languages on Airbnb

The right-to-left presentation of these top-requested languages present unique engineering and design challenges.
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Mati Bot
Moving Lottie Swiftly into the Future

Moving Lottie Swiftly into the Future

A personal story on how Airbnb rewrote the popular open source library Lottie in a new language
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Tyler Hedrick
Latest
Avoiding Double Payments in a Distributed Payments System

Avoiding Double Payments in a Distributed Payments System

How we built a generic idempotency framework to achieve eventual consistency and correctness across our payments micro-service…
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Jon Chew
New Data Scientists: Tips for Success

New Data Scientists: Tips for Success

In this post I outline some advice for junior data scientists as they onboard onto data and product teams at Airbnb.
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lindsay m pettingill
Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences

Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences

How we built and iterated on a machine learning Search Ranking platform for a new two-sided marketplace and how we helped it grow.
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Mihajlo Grbovic
Open Source
Introducing AloeStackView for iOS

Introducing AloeStackView for iOS

A simple class for laying out a collection of views with a convenient API.
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Marli Oshlack
Accelerating Services at Airbnb by Building — and Open Sourcing — a Blazing Fast Thrift Binding for…

Accelerating Services at Airbnb by Building — and Open Sourcing — a Blazing Fast Thrift Binding for…

Introducing Sparsam, Airbnb’s implementation of Thrift Serializer in Ruby. Sparsam is up to 25x faster than the old Thrift Ruby Binding in…
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Andy Fang
BinaryAlert: Real-time Serverless Malware Detection

BinaryAlert: Real-time Serverless Malware Detection

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Austin Byers
Alerting Framework at Airbnb

Alerting Framework at Airbnb

The Need
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Jimmy Ngo
Superset: Scaling Data Access and Visual Insights at Airbnb

Superset: Scaling Data Access and Visual Insights at Airbnb

By Alanna Scott, Bogdan Kyryliuk, Eli Brumbaugh, Jeff Feng, Max Beauchemin and Vera Liu
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Jeff Feng
Introducing Lottie

Introducing Lottie

Our new open-source tool makes adding animation to native apps a snap.
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AirbnbEng
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