How Airbnb Uses MySQL

The article reviews Airbnb's significant advancements in research and technology throughout 2025, focusing on their participation in key conferences and the impactful papers presented.

Chronon is a declarative feature engineering framework developed by Airbnb to streamline the process of creating production-grade features for machine learning models.

The article discusses Metis, Airbnb's next-generation data management platform designed to empower the company to manage its complex data ecosystem at scale.

The article discusses Mussel, Airbnb's scalable key-value store designed for derived data.

The article discusses Airbnb's Safe Deploy system, focusing on its architecture and engineering choices for implementing near real-time experiments.

Airbnb's article discusses their centralized access management system designed to enforce the principle of least privilege at scale.

This article discusses the automation of data protection at scale within Airbnb, focusing on the Data Protection Service (DPS) and its role in enhancing security and privacy engineering capabilitie...

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...

This article discusses how Airbnb leverages the Minerva API to provide a consistent and simplified data consumption experience at scale.

This article discusses the development of Airbnb's Data Protection Platform (DPP), which automates data privacy and security measures at scale.

The article discusses Dynein, an open-source distributed delayed job queueing system developed by Airbnb to enhance the scalability and reliability of job scheduling.

The article discusses the implementation of a generic idempotency framework at Airbnb to prevent double payments in a distributed payments system.

The article discusses how Airbnb utilizes Druid, a big data analytics engine, to enhance their analytics capabilities for real-time and batch processing.

The article discusses Airbnb's approach to production secret management, highlighting the development and implementation of an internal system called Bagpiper.

The article discusses the development of SpinalTap, Airbnb's Change Data Capture (CDC) system, which enables real-time propagation and reaction to data mutations across its service-oriented archite...

This article discusses the scaling of Airbnb's Experimentation Reporting Framework (ERF), detailing its evolution from a simple Ruby script to a robust system utilizing Apache Airflow.

The article discusses how Airbnb's Payments team scaled their financial reporting system to handle increasing transaction volumes and complexity.

The article discusses Superset, a data exploration and visualization platform developed by Airbnb to democratize data access and empower users of varying data literacy levels.