Airbnb EngineeringFeb 11, 20269 min read

My Journey to Airbnb — Anna Sulkina

Anna Sulkina has always been a traveler, and we’re lucky her travels have brought her to Airbnb. Anna is a Senior Director of Engineering, and she’s...

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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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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...

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AirbnbSep 29, 2026

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...

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