Overview: We recently rethought the architecture for the JavaScript side of our codebase at Airbnb. This post will look at (1) the product drivers that precipitated the changes, (2) the steps we took to move away from our legacy Rails solutions, and (3) some of the key…
by Robert Chang
By Jan Overgoor
Airbnb is an online two-sided marketplace that matches people who rent out their homes (‘hosts’) with people who are looking for a place to stay (‘guests’). We use controlled experiments to learn and make decisions at every step of product…
By Maxime Beauchemin
Airbnb is a fast growing, data informed company. Our data teams and data volume are growing quickly, and accordingly, so does the complexity of the challenges we take on. Our growing workforce of data engineers…
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