10 Problems Airbnb Solved By Building A Metrics Platform
summary
Minerva is a metrics platform built to make Airbnb’s analytics single source of truth by turning raw events into owned measure and dimension sources, enforcing clear ownership and automated dependency updates via data versions. It exposes an API and Data Portal UI, supports dry‑run backfills and cost estimates, runs automated quality checks (Midas certification), and scales to ~38,000 metrics, 20,000 dimensions, 5,000 tables and 6+ PB. The system backfills, swaps, and cleans legacy tables automatically and successfully guided product strategy during the COVID travel shift.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Airbnb’s metrics platform journey
- 1:25Data at Airbnb 2008-2015
- 4:21Problems with legacy data architecture
- 10:30What is Manura
- 13:20Manura’s metrics and dimensions
- 16:10Manura’s UI and features
- 18:17Manura’s scale and impact
- 19:21Pandemic strategy case study
- 22:29Managing change in Manura
- 26:44Midas data quality certification
- 28:30Solutions to original problems
- 32:39Q&A
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