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Scaling beyond one: How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for a multi-product world

How Airbnb’s data engineers and analytics engineers built a consistent and flexible data modeling framework to support the expansion into Homes, Experiences, and Services.By: Patrick Lam, Namrata Lamba, Jamie StoberWith the May 2025 Summer Release, Airbnb redesigned its app, relaunched Experiences,

Gemini in Apple's Foundation Models framework

Sitar-agent: Building a reliable dynamic configuration sidecar at scale

How Airbnb built a Kubernetes sidecar to deliver dynamic configuration reliably at scale.By: Bo Teng, Cosmo Qiu, Siyuan Zhou, Ankur Soni, Xin Huang, Willis HarveyIntroductionIn our previous post, we explored Airbnb’s dynamic configuration system, Sitar, with a focus on service architecture and confi

New ways to turn global demand into revenue

At Sessions 2026, Stripe unveiled dozens of products and capabilities to help businesses turn global demand into revenue. See how to go global faster with localized checkout and Adaptive Pricing, smarter fraud tools, multicurrency treasury support, and automated tax compliance.

The future of agentic commerce is here

Explore how AI agents are transforming commerce at Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Next roadshow. Reserve your spot in Seattle.

When history fails you, borrow from geography

How Airbnb used sequential geographic recovery signals and prior propagation to generate reliable corridor-level forecasts when local data was scarce.By: Harrison KatzThe problem with unprecedented shocksAlmost every forecasting system is built on the same implicit assumption: the future will resemb

Building a cooking assistant with Firebase AI Logic

Live text search with Firestore pipelines and React

Introducing the pkg.go.dev API

Introducing the new programmatic API for pkg.go.dev, allowing developers to fetch package and module data directly.

Scaling Airbnb’s identity graph with a unified knowledge graph infrastructure

How Airbnb shifts from PaaS to an internal knowledge graph infrastructure at scale.By: Lucen Zhao, Shukun Yang, Ashish JainKnowledge graphs offer a natural and powerful way to represent relationships between entities. Many real-world systems are fundamentally about connections.Airbnb’s identity grap

What’s new from Firebase at Google I/O 2026

Type Construction and Cycle Detection

Go 1.26 simplifies type construction and enhances cycle detection for certain kinds of recursive types.