Airbnb
Airbnb's core booking platform, internally nicknamed Monorail, is a large Ruby on Rails application that the company has invested heavily in keeping maintainable as it grew.
What we cover in the quiz
- Airbnb's main application, internally called Monorail, has run on Ruby on Rails since the company's early days, and Airbnb has invested in tooling to keep that large monolith maintainable.
- Airbnb created Airflow internally to manage its growing number of interdependent data pipelines, then open-sourced it; it later became an Apache top-level project widely used across the industry.