Airbnb

What COVID did to our forecasting models (and what we built to handle the next shock)

Building forecasting models that remain accurate during sudden market shocks like a global pandemic, where historical data no longer predicts future outcomes.

ml-systems observability
5 min
Airbnb

From vendors to vanguard: Airbnb’s hard-won lessons in observability ownership

Airbnb's reliance on multiple third-party observability vendors resulted in inconsistent data, fragmented developer experiences, and limitations in cost-effectiveness and reliability at their scale.

observability microservices
5 min
Airbnb

It Wasn’t a Culture Problem: Upleveling Alert Development at Airbnb

Airbnb's Observability as Code alert development process had excessively long development cycles (weeks) due to cumbersome code review workflows, slowing down engineers' ability to create and iterate on alerts at scale across thousands of services.

observability microservices
5 min