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• Skipper, Airbnb's embedded workflow engine, is now open source #OpenSource #SoftwareArchitecture #Engineering

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  Nov 10, 2026

• CASTLE: training natural language search before the first real query #MachineLearning #AI #DataScience

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  Oct 13, 2026

• Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at Airbnb #DataEngineering #Database #TechBlog

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  Oct 6, 2026

• Personalization without user identity #MachineLearning #DataScience #Engineering

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  Sep 29, 2026

• The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb's sequence recommender with Chronon #MachineLearning #DataEngineering #RealTime

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  Sep 17, 2026

• Beyond the Model: Engineering AI Infra with Scientific Judgement #AI #Engineering #DataScience

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  Sep 15, 2026

• Project Lighthouse -- Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize #DataScience #OpenSource #Privacy

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  Aug 25, 2026

• How we knew COVID was over (and what our models had to unlearn) #DataScience #MachineLearning #Tech

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  Aug 19, 2026

• Flexible Authentication: Reimagining authentication for millions of users at Airbnb #Authentication #Engineering #Tech

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  Aug 12, 2026

• Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale #AI #MachineLearning #SoftwareEngineering

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  Jul 28, 2026

• Personalizing Airbnb search by learning from the guest journey #MachineLearning #DataScience #Tech

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  Jul 21, 2026

• From weeks to a day: how we made LLM evaluation fast enough to iterate on #AI #Engineering #LLM

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  Jul 14, 2026

• Scaling beyond one: How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for a multi-product world #DataEngineering #Tech #Architecture

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  Jun 9, 2026

• Sitar-agent: Building a reliable dynamic configuration sidecar at scale #Engineering #Infrastructure #Software

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  Jun 4, 2026

• When history fails you, borrow from geography #DataScience #MachineLearning #Tech

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  Jun 2, 2026

• Scaling Airbnb's identity graph with a unified knowledge graph infrastructure #DataEngineering #KnowledgeGraph #Tech

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  May 19, 2026

• Viaduct 1.0 and the future of Airbnb's data mesh #DataEngineering #OpenSource #Tech

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  May 13, 2026

• Monitoring reliably at scale #Engineering #Observability #Tech

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  May 5, 2026