OCT 23, 2026

Building a fault-tolerant metrics storage system at Airbnb

How we built a storage system that ingests 50 million samples per second and stores 2.5 petabytes of logical time series data.By: Rishabh KumarModern...

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CASTLE: training natural language search before the first real query

How we addressed the cold-start problem for Airbnb’s natural language search by jointly generating synthetic training data — queries and relevance labels —...

FrontendData Science

7 min

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Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at Airbnb

How we capture real production database traffic at Airbnb and replay it offline to load-test, plan capacity, and de-risk upgrades.By: Zuofei Wang, Erluo...

FrontendData Science

11 min

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Personalization without user identity

How Airbnb uses proximity signals to personalize without relying on individual user history.By: Wei Jiang, Bin Xu, Bharathi Thangamani, Weiwei Guo, Sundar...

FrontendData Science

8 min