OCT 16, 2026

Building a high-volume metrics pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent

A production-tested approach for moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.By: Eugene Ma, Natasha AleksandrovaWhen...

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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 —...

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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