Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb has open sourced a tool called AirpalĀ that the company built to give more of its employees access to the data they need for their jobs. Airpal is built… Read more »
I visualized a trove of data from MapLight about the issues on which internet companies are lobbying Congress. Here are the results of that, as well as links to the raw… Read more »
Apache Mesos is the open source cluster-management software that automates operations at companies such as Twitter and Airbnb. Now, a startup called Mesosphere is building a business around taking it mainstream. Read more »
Airbnb open sourced a new tool called SmartStack that automates the management of the company’s various services. If they’re healthy, SmartStack facilitates communications. If they’re not, it knows and it takes… Read more »
Like all most web companies, Airbnb is trying to provide a better user experience by analyzing lots and lots of data. Here’s how the company built its big data infrastructure atop… Read more »
Airbnb recently analyzed its reviews to to find out what cities are the most hospitable and what guest-and-host characteristics tend to influence positive reviews. Should Airbnb users care? Read more »
Etsy, Airbnb and the Climate Corporation are all using a combination of Cascading and Amazon Elastic MapReduce to make creating Hadoop jobs as simple as possible. But they’re not the only… Read more »