Top stories published by The Airbnb Tech Blog in 2013

Chronos is our replacement for cron. It is a distributed and fault-tolerant scheduler which runs on top of Mesos. It’s a framework and supports custom mesos…

AirbnbEng in The Airbnb Tech Blog

Sep 15, 2013

Launching airbnb.jp in record time

By Jason Katz-Brown

Airbnb has hosts in 192 countries, and two-thirds of Airbnb trips cross a country border. Being totally international is not optional for us! Many things contribute to Airbnb growing in a new part of the world: an…

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AirbnbEng in The Airbnb Tech Blog

Jan 29, 2013

Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server

By Spike Brehm

Here at Airbnb, we’ve been looking curiously at Node.js for a long time now. We’ve used it for odds and ends, such as the build process for some of our libraries, but we hadn’t built anything…

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AirbnbEng in The Airbnb Tech Blog

Feb 25, 2013

Redshift Performance & Cost

By Henry Cai

At Airbnb, we look into all possible ways to improve our product and user experience. Often times this involves lots of analytics behind the scene. Our data pipeline thus far has consisted of Hadoop, MySQL, R and Stata. We’ve used a wide…

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AirbnbEng in The Airbnb Tech Blog

Aug 14, 2013

Secret Ingredients to Building Airbnb’s International Payments Platform

By Ian Logan

Airbnb has become a trusted global marketplace for finding the most interesting places to stay in the world. Part of what has helped build trust in the community has…

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AirbnbEng in The Airbnb Tech Blog

Nov 11, 2013

Host Experience on Android

By Carol Leung

One of our goals is to push the envelope of Android design. We strive to craft and build an innovative, elegant, and distinctly Android experience. The new Host Home on Android is an excellent example of this. With Host Home we want to…

AirbnbEng in The Airbnb Tech Blog

Oct 15, 2013

Making Breakfast: Chef at Airbnb

By Igor Serebryany & Martin Rhoads

Airbnb is a dynamic code environment. As we build an SOA to cope with our rapid growth, we have dozens of people creating, launching, and wiring together the services which create the user experience you see on…

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