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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 architecture.
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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
Our Swift Style Guide Is Now Open Source

Our Swift Style Guide Is Now Open Source

It’s been four years of Swift at Airbnb. The language has changed and our practices have too. Today, we’re sharing how we write Swift.
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Francisco Díaz
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Contextualizing Airbnb by Building Knowledge Graph

Contextualizing Airbnb by Building Knowledge Graph

Introducing how we built the Knowledge Graph at Airbnb, which helped us categorize our inventories and deliver contexts to people.
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Xiaoya Wei
Discovering and Classifying In-app Message Intent at Airbnb

Discovering and Classifying In-app Message Intent at Airbnb

Conversational AI is inspiring us to rethink the customer experience on our platform.
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Michelle (Guqian) Du
Empowering Data Science with Engineering Education

Empowering Data Science with Engineering Education

Engineering education enables data scientists to better interface with engineering and ensures higher data quality.
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Michelle (Guqian) Du
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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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