Scaling beyond one: How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for a multi-product world
Airbnb's data engineers and analytics engineers built a flexible data modeling framework to support the company's expansion into multiple products. They defined three foundational principles to ensure consistency and scalability: avoiding hybrid data models, consistent identifier naming, and clear namespace organization. This framework empowered teams to pick the right data model for their specific domain, using shared guidelines that considered factors such as shared product attributes, future evolution, and code maintainability.
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