SEP 17, 2026

Skipper: Building Airbnb’s embedded workflow engine

How Airbnb built a lightweight workflow engine to solve durable execution.By: Ricardo Gamba, Andriy SergiyenkoIntroduction: The durable execution...

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Beyond the Model: Engineering AI Infra with Scientific Judgement

How Airbnb’s agent harness transforms unstructured data exploration by encoding scientific methodology into scalable, reproducible, and audit-ready...

FrontendData Science

6 min

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Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize

Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymizeThe data in Project Lighthouse is powered by privacy-preserving anonymization code. We’ve...

FrontendData Science

5 min

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How we knew COVID was over (and what our models had to unlearn)

When we retrain, when we rebuild, and when we leave a model alone.By: Harrison KatzA forecast that carries weightThe Forecasting Data Science team at Airbnb...

FrontendData Science

15 min