Academic Publications & Airbnb Tech: 2025 Year in Review

Academic Publications & Airbnb Tech: 2025 Year in Review

• Academic Publications & Airbnb Tech: 2025 Year in Review 2025 was a big year for research at Airbnb, as we made significant progress toward our mission to use AI, data science, a

Developer Ecosystem · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 274 words

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 responsible for Application

Developer Ecosystem · February 11, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 215 words
My Journey to Airbnb: Peter Coles

My Journey to Airbnb: Peter Coles

• My Journey to Airbnb: Peter Coles – Listen Share Public school to PhD The story of Airbnb’s Head Economist for Policy and Director of Data Science involves geology, co-teaching

Developer Ecosystem · January 28, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 234 words

From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb's Key-Value Store

• How Airbnb hardened Mussel, our key-value store, with smarter traffic controls to stay fast and reliable during traffic spikes. • By Shravan Gaonkar , Casey Getz , Wonhee Cho Int

Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb

• How we completely rearchitected Mussel, our storage engine for derived data, and lessons learned from the migration from Mussel V1 to V2. • By Shravan Gaonkar , Chandramouli Rang

Developer Ecosystem · September 24, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 321 words

Migrating Airbnb's JVM Monorepo to Bazel

• By: Jack Dai, Howard Ho, Loc Dinh, Stepan Goncharov, Ted Tenedorio, and Thomas Bao At Airbnb, we recently completed migrating our largest repo, the JVM monorepo, to Bazel. • This