HTTP 2.0 for Fun and Profit
The HTTP working group is working at full speed on HTTP 2.0 – yes, really! Curious to know what lies ahead for HTTP 2.0, how it will affect and improve performance of our web applications, what...
View ArticleFulfillment Engineering: Dealing with Humans and Real-World Physical Objects
In the past year, we’ve seen a surge of companies that apply technical solutions to our physical world, from calling taxis to renting evening gowns to locating vacation lodgings. What are the...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Node.js: v0.10, streams2, and more
Isaac will be talking about the latest developments in Node.js, including the upcoming v0.10 release, the new streams2 API, and other dispatches from the front lines of Node.js development. Isaac is...
View ArticleReplacing Cron & Building Scalable Data Pipelines at Airbnb
Understanding and analyzing user behavior is crucial for us at Airbnb. Our analytics team depends on very complex data pipelines for analysis, necessitating having a Data Infrastructure team for...
View ArticleDive Into Performance
Steve Souders navigates a path through the performance landscape using the latest as well as classic tools to measure, analyze, and fix the performance of popular websites. Steve is the Head...
View ArticleTwitter-commons: libraries for python and the jvm (and a build system – why not)
Twitter-commons has quietly existed in the open since May 2011 but has only recently gained some more visible adoption by companies like Airbnb and Foursquare. The libraries contained within underlie...
View ArticleCascading: Enterprise Data Workflows based on Functional Programming
Paco Nathan is the Director of Data Science at Concurrent in SF and a committer on the Cascading open source project. He has expertise in Hadoop, R, AWS, machine learning, predictive analytics — with...
View ArticleTour de Jackson: From Basics to Forgotten Features
Tatu is a Principal Engineer at SalesForce.com. He has previously held senior engineering positions at Sun and Amazon. Tatu is the author of Woodstox and Aalto, the fastest Java XML processors in the...
View ArticleAirplanes, Spaceships, and Missiles: Engineering Lessons from Famous Projects
It is said that in success we stand on the shoulders of giants. In this, talk, we will explore some of those giants: the amazing machines from the US aviation industry of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Some of...
View ArticleApache ZooKeeper and the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
In this talk, Patrick describes typical issues faced in a distributed computing environment — network reliability, latency, topology change and so on that made building a distributed system hard...
View ArticleUsing Technology to Build a Better Food System
Josh Tetrick, CEO/Founder of Hampton Creek, discussed how technology is being used today to solve urgent needs, specifically in the food system. Hampton Creek is bringing healthier and more affordable...
View ArticleJoin us for OpenAir!
We are excited to announce that Airbnb will be hosting our first half-day tech conference called OpenAir. We’ll be hosting it on April 24th at 888 Brannan from 2:00 – 7:00 pm. From 2:00 – 5:30 we’ll...
View ArticleShow me the money!
One of the hardest questions for anyone selling a product is ‘how much should I charge?’ This question becomes even harder when you’re selling highly unique items: rare collectables, time, tasks,...
View ArticleExperiments at Airbnb
This is the first talk in the upcoming series on Search and Matching at Airbnb, where we’ll be introducing our experimentation infrastructure for running A/B tests with the context of conversion...
View ArticleSearch at Airbnb
A successful e-commerce platform requires an outstanding search engine – it is a major conversion driver that must be designed to balance a diverse set of user needs. The new generation of two-sided...
View ArticleOpenAir: Payments on a Global Scale
It was a pleasure hosting John Collison of Stripe and Gilad Horev of Eventbrite where we discussed payments on a global scale. Some highlights of the discussion were focusing on minimum viable products...
View ArticleOpenAir: Marketplace Matchmaking
With traditional search over the vast web of tens of billions of documents, any number of people can consume the content. Marketplace search is different. There is fixed supply, but if something is...
View ArticleOpenAir: Algorithmic Pricing
It was a pleasure to welcome Henry Lin and Drake Baer for a conversation around how Airbnb and Uber predict prices. One of the hardest questions for anyone selling a product is: “How much should I...
View ArticleOpenAir: Driving Sustainable & Scalable Growth
Building an online business takes more than a great product, especially when your customers’ primary experiences ultimately happen offline. Creative strategists explain not only how to grow your user...
View ArticleOpenAir: Ben Horowitz in Conversation with Airbnb’s Mike Curtis
From Lyft to DogVacay to Airbnb, Andreessen Horowitz has had its eye (and money) on the sharing economy movement and how it is dramatically changing the way people exchange goods and services. In...
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