Skipper, Airbnb’s embedded workflow engine, is now open source
Durable workflows, running inside your service with no separate orchestration cluster.
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Frontier quality at 1% of the cost: a production benchmark...
We benchmarked a fine-tuned E2B model against frontier APIs on a real production classification task. It...
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CASTLE: training natural language search before the first real query
How we addressed the cold-start problem for Airbnb’s natural language search by jointly generating synthetic training...
Read moreBeyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at...
How we capture real production database traffic at Airbnb and replay it offline to load-test, plan...
Read morePersonalization without user identity
How Airbnb uses proximity signals to personalize without relying on individual user history.
Read moreThe guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence...
How two new Chronon capabilities, Push Mode and NRT Model Transform, allows us to provide more...
Read moreBeyond 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...
Read moreHow we knew COVID was over (and what our models...
When we retrain, when we rebuild, and when we leave a model alone.
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