Delhi to London : What it’s like to be relocated for a new job!

Since I am from India, I always think in terms of Bollywood movies, where everything is possible. Yes, that’s right…everything. Maybe that is why when I started off with Badoo, I always believed that this was within my reach. If I were to make a Bollywood movie of my journey…

Composable Go

With a lot of languages, it is easy to replace a given function or method call with a mocked version. Dynamically replacing or statically injecting mocked dependencies makes testing code much easier. Personally I’ve found this approach less than ideal in Go, so I’ve been looking for another way to…

Running Parallel Jobs on CircleCI

Server Rendering, Code Splitting, and Lazy Loading with React Router v4

Challenge accepted. Nicole, one of our hosts, taking some guests on a sunrise walk and picnic above… Some Background on Server Rendering at Airbnb Historically, Airbnb has been a Rails app. A few years back that started to change, we began using Rails simply as a data layer, and all render logic started migrating into JavaScript in…

What’s Right with Errors

You’re enjoying your app when suddenly an error message pops up, reading “Error: Something went wrong” Or you’re developing a new feature and attempting to interact with this outdated API that just returns NO when you call [Obscure.sharedManager doYourMagic] … And you’re frustrated!

The Smart Instant Book Filter

By Yi Hou, Li Fan & Tao Cui People like it when things are fast. We want our deliveries within an hour, our downloads within a minute, and our news in an instant. That is why we need to help our Airbnb community to book listings they want instantly. Instant…

Beyond culture fit: non-technical hiring criteria for engineers

We’ve taken this principle to heart and are careful never…

Screen navigation in iOS

In this article, we will go through different ways of presenting screens in the iOS app. We will start with most straightforward cases and eventually go through some advanced scenarios. In a nutshell we will be adding more abstraction layers to make our screens decoupled and navigation testable by unit…

Upgrading Kafka at Strava

My name is Daniel Schofield and I am a Senior at the University of Maryland. I have had the pleasure of interning at Strava on the Infrastructure team for the past 3 months. While I am an avid runner that has used Strava for a while, my interest…

A distributed computation system for deep learning experiments with Docker Compose and RabbitMQ.

Exploratory Data Analysis of orders on Grofers

Intercepting and redefining modal presentation from a third-party framework

The Problem Some time ago, here at Badoo, we introduced a third-party library to cover our project needs. It was working well, except for one detail: it was presenting UI using iOS modal presentation (typical full screen view controller which is shown from the bottom of the screen), but according to our…

Building Myntra Zero — A High Performance Progressive Web App

Also, with the exception of large (Tier I) cities, most users use a low…

Building Services at Airbnb, Part 1

By Liang Guo, Frank Lin, and Junjie Guan Alexis, one of our hosts, shows some of her guests how to shuck oysters in… Airbnb is moving its infrastructure at an accelerated pace towards a SOA (service-oriented architecture), but moving from a monolithic Rails service towards a SOA while building out new products and features is not without its challenges. In this post, we share what…

Singleton, Service Locator and tests in iOS

In this article, I want to review the usage of Singleton and Service Locator patterns in iOS and the reasons why they are often called anti-patterns. We’ll learn when and how to use them, while keeping our code testable. Singleton Singleton is a class which has only one instance existing at…

React Performance Fixes on Airbnb Listing Pages

Airbnb has some incredible listings in Cuba…and also a corner of the office inspired by Habana Vieja We have been hard at work migrating the airbnb.com core booking flow into a single-page server-rendered app using React Router and Hypernova. At the beginning of the year, we rolled this out for…

Art of Automation: Striking a Balance

Diving into mobile with React Native

Matching Albums through Cover Art Fingerprinting

Rebuilding the Segment Leaderboards Infrastructure: Part 4: Accessory Systems

React Native at Grofers: Using React Native components inside native views

Horizontal scrolling widget has been built in…

Web and Surf Summit afterglow: a Product Manager’s review

A crazy, wild, roller-coaster ride

It was towards the end of October 2014 that I came to know about Grofers. A friend of mine had…

Top Chef Tips for a DoorDash Friendsgiving

This week, DoorDash threw a Friendsgiving dinner, hosted by two-time Top Chef finalist, cook book author, and DoorDash Merchant, Sam Talbot at the Bluxome Street Winery at Ghirardelli Square. The goal of the evening was to showcase how…

ES Classes in Ember.js