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Adopting Bazel for Web at Scale

How and Why We Migrated Airbnb’s Large-Scale Web Monorepo to Bazel By: Brie Bunge and Sharmila Jesupaul At Airbnb, we’ve recently adopted Bazel — Google’s open source build tool–as our universal build system across backend, web, and iOS platforms. This post will cover our experience adopting Bazel for Airbnb’s large-scale (over 11 million lines of […]

NEOM Announces Design and Engineering Partnership for THE LINE with DMAA, Gensler, and Mott MacDonald

THE LINE, Phase One Strategic Partners. Image Courtesy of NEOM Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1023440/neom-expands-the-line-with-major-design-and-engineering-partnerships-including-dmaa-gensler-and-mott-macdonald NEOM has announced the appointment of new partners to advance the city planning, design, and engineering for the initial phase of THE LINE, a core component of its region in northwest Saudi Arabia. The collaboration brings […]

Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning

How Airbnb leverages machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques to solve a unique information retrieval task in order to provide guests with unique, affordable, and differentiated accommodations around the world. By: Dillon Davis, Huiji Gao, Thomas Legrand, Weiwei Guo, Malay Haldar, Alex Deng, Han Zhao, Liwei He, Sanjeev Katariya Airbnb has transformed the way people […]

Conwy Suspension Bridge

Built in the 1280s by King Edward I, Conwy Castle is widely considered one of the finest fortifications of medieval Europe, worthy of its World Heritage status. Adjacent, spanning the River Conwy, is a magnificent suspension bridge with big castellated towers similar in style with the castle. But wait—a suspension bridge of such size can’t […]

Help Wanted: Keep The World’s Oldest Windmills Turning

While the Netherlands is the country most known for its windmills, they were originally invented by the Persians. More surprisingly, some of them are still turning after 1,000 years. The ancient world holds many wonders of technology, and some are only now coming back to the surface like the Antikythera Mechanism. Milling grain with wind […]

Empowering Engineers with AI – Engineering at Slack

Background and motivation In the fast-paced world of software development, having the right tools can make all the difference. At Slack, we’ve been working on a set of AI-powered developer tools that are saving 10,000+ hours of developer time yearly, while meeting our strictest requirements for security, data protection, and compliance. In this post, we’ll […]