BUILDING POSTCARDS FOR “AIRBNB” SCALE

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Airbnb's Media team developed a system to generate unique, personalized postcards for group trips. The project was complex and involved matching relevant postcards to destinations, having localized text formatting, and optimizing performance for various platforms. The team built a flexible template system, used a destination matching algorithm, and implemented an asynchronous postcard generation workflow for fast delivery.