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How Airbnb Uses AWS

28 engineering articles about AWS from Airbnb's engineering team

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The article discusses how Airbnb manages dynamic configuration changes safely and reliably at scale.
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Anna Sulkina, Senior Director of Engineering at Airbnb, shares her career journey from growing up in Eastern Ukraine during the collapse of the Soviet Union to leading Application & Cloud Infrastru...
Lauren Mackevich
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The article discusses Airbnb's migration of its JVM monorepo from Gradle to Bazel, detailing the motivations, process, and outcomes of this significant transition.
Thomas Bao
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The article discusses how Airbnb manages seamless upgrades of Istio across tens of thousands of pods and multiple Kubernetes clusters.
Rushy R. Panchal
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The article discusses Airbnb's innovative approach to achieving high availability with distributed databases on Kubernetes.
Artem Danilov
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The article discusses the migration of Airbnb's streaming processing architecture from Hadoop Yarn to Kubernetes using Apache Flink.
Ran Zhang
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The article discusses how Airbnb revamped its continuous integration (CI) system for iOS development by leveraging AWS, Packer, and Terraform.
Michael Bachand
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The article discusses how Airbnb utilizes computer vision to analyze listing photos, enhancing the guest experience by optimizing search results based on image aesthetics and design.
Yuanpei Cao
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The article discusses the challenges of vulnerability management at scale, emphasizing the need for an automated, vendor-agnostic approach to effectively detect, assess, and remediate vulnerabiliti...
Keziah Plattner
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Airbnb's article discusses their centralized access management system designed to enforce the principle of least privilege at scale.
Paul Bramsen
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The article discusses how Airbnb has implemented dynamic Kubernetes cluster scaling to optimize cloud spending in response to fluctuating traffic demands.
David Morrison
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The article chronicles Florian Andes' journey from building airplanes to becoming a Staff Technical Program Manager at Airbnb.
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The article introduces Ottr, a serverless Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) framework developed by Airbnb to simplify certificate management at scale.
Kenneth Yang
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This article discusses the architecture and functionality of Airbnb's data classification systems, Inspekt and Angmar, which automate the detection of personal and sensitive data and secrets in the...
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This article discusses the development of Airbnb's Data Protection Platform (DPP), which automates data privacy and security measures at scale.
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Airbnb’s Promotions and Communications Platform, known as OMNI, is designed to manage and distribute marketing communications effectively across various channels.
Paritosh Aggarwal
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The article discusses Himeji, a scalable centralized system for authorization developed at Airbnb, which addresses challenges faced during the transition from a monolithic Ruby on Rails architectur...
Alan Yao
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The article discusses how Airbnb developed a robust cost data foundation to enhance infrastructure efficiency and achieve significant cost savings.
Anna Matlin
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The article discusses Airbnb's journey towards achieving cloud efficiency, focusing on the challenges faced due to rising AWS costs and the strategies implemented to manage and optimize cloud resou...
Jennifer Rice
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The article discusses Vulnture, a tool developed by Airbnb's InfoSec team to streamline the detection and remediation of security vulnerabilities.
Mark Vlcek
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This article discusses the final installment of Airbnb's series on Android testing, focusing on test generation and continuous integration (CI) setup.
Eli Hart
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The article discusses Dynein, an open-source distributed delayed job queueing system developed by Airbnb to enhance the scalability and reliability of job scheduling.
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This article discusses the implementation of an automated interaction testing system at Airbnb for Android applications.
Eli Hart
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This article discusses the implementation of screenshot testing at Airbnb for Android applications, focusing on how it automates UI testing for Fragments.
Eli Hart
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The article discusses Airbnb's approach to production secret management, highlighting the development and implementation of an internal system called Bagpiper.
Kaiyi Li
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BinaryAlert is an open-source, serverless framework developed by Airbnb for real-time malware detection using YARA rules.
Austin Byers
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The article discusses the alerting framework developed at Airbnb, focusing on the implementation of Interferon, a tool that automates alert configurations using a Ruby DSL.
Jimmy Ngo
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StreamAlert is an open-source real-time data analysis framework designed for automated alerting and security.

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