Airbnb

For the Airbnb #OneLessStranger campaign we created a socially-driven website whose aim was to bring together complete strangers. This social experiment began on New Years Eve and culminated in forging increased connections.

I configured environments with contained load balancers and webservers with LEMP stacks to support our source code.

Each instance had Nginx compiled from source and configured with custom header, caching, and routing support (LUA was used to configure each). Nginx has proven to be a very successful platform for modern projects given it’s design and configuration capabilities and thus I’ve continued to promote it’s use in production.

On the backend, I installed Ruby and MongoDB (NoSQL style database). Localization techniques were implemented in the building of this project. Our API delivered easy to use RESTful endpoints to the frontend.