--- title: A Brief History of Airbnb’s Architecture | daily.dev description: Learn about the history of Airbnb's architecture, the challenges faced during their migration to a Service-Oriented Architecture, and the tools and techniques... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-brief-history-of-airbnb-s-architecture-uiayuzf5y twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Brief History of Airbnb’s Architecture | daily.dev og:description: Learn about the history of Airbnb's architecture, the challenges faced during their migration to a Service-Oriented Architecture, and the tools and techniques... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-brief-history-of-airbnb-s-architecture-uiayuzf5y og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UiAYuzF5y.png og:image:alt: A Brief History of Airbnb’s Architecture og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Brief History of Airbnb’s Architecture **[ByteByteGo](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego)** · 12 min read · 107 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Learn about the history of Airbnb's architecture, the challenges faced during their migration to a Service-Oriented Architecture, and the tools and techniques they used to support their SOA. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@aishwarygupta** · 0 upvotes > Complicated 😅 **@shriyanshrauthan** · 0 upvotes > In order to overcome the constraints of the monolithic design as they scaled, I think Airbnb made the wise decision to switch to a Service-Oriented design . > > Services can be individually scaled to meet their requirements. > In my opinion its encourages modularity, which facilitates codebase comprehension and maintenance. > > By concentrating on particular services, developers can work on projects more quickly and with fewer conflicts. --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-brief-history-of-airbnb-s-architecture-uiayuzf5y) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A Brief History of Airbnb’s Architecture","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-brief-history-of-airbnb-s-architecture-uiayuzf5y","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-brief-history-of-airbnb-s-architecture-uiayuzf5y"},"datePublished":"2024-02-20T16:36:08.187Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z","description":"Learn about the history of Airbnb's architecture, the challenges faced during their migration to a Service-Oriented Architecture, and the tools and techniques...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/51f9a980e9a262f570b3bfdc268137da?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/51f9a980e9a262f570b3bfdc268137da?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"ByteByteGo","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ByteByteGo","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/35be29234ee14d01a9cd049c52e12753","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-brief-history-of-airbnb-s-architecture-uiayuzf5y","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":107},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"architecture,rails","timeRequired":"PT12M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ByteByteGo","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A Brief History of Airbnb’s Architecture"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-brief-history-of-airbnb-s-architecture-uiayuzf5y","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Complicated 😅","datePublished":"2024-02-23T16:21:57.318Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/UiAYuzF5y#c-TIKDexlCB","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Aishwary Gupta","url":"https://daily.dev/aishwarygupta","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocI36_-Z3SwDSh597IcUeISf2MC_Dnk8THs9LHmNpLqDHs5y=s96-c"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"In order to overcome the constraints of the monolithic design as they scaled, I think Airbnb made the wise decision to switch to a Service-Oriented design .\nServices can be individually scaled to meet their requirements.\nIn my opinion its encourages modularity, which facilitates codebase comprehension and maintenance.\nBy concentrating on particular services, developers can work on projects more quickly and with fewer conflicts.","datePublished":"2024-03-31T06:59:54.038Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/UiAYuzF5y#c-TwHN38BT9","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Shriyansh Rauthan","url":"https://daily.dev/shriyanshrauthan","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--YeotldU9--/f_auto/v1718848135/avatars/avatar_3WQJRhC2XfiRWHb6JGhzg"}}]} ```