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Engineering the
Resolution Center
QCon San Francisco
November 4, 2014
Alvin Sng, Software Engineer
@alvinsng
alvinsng.com
linkedin.com/in/alvinsng
InfoQ.com: News & Community Site
• 750,000 unique visitors/month
• Published in 4 languages (English, Chinese, Japanese and Brazilian
Portuguese)
• Post content from our QCon conferences
• News 15-20 / week
• Articles 3-4 / week
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• Interviews 2-3 / week
• Books 1 / month
Watch the video with slide
synchronization on InfoQ.com!
http://www.infoq.com/presentations
/airbnb-resolution-center
Purpose of QCon
- to empower software development by facilitating the spread of
knowledge and innovation
Strategy
- practitioner-driven conference designed for YOU: influencers of
change and innovation in your teams
- speakers and topics driving the evolution and innovation
- connecting and catalyzing the influencers and innovators
Highlights
- attended by more than 12,000 delegates since 2007
- held in 9 cities worldwide
Presented at QCon San Francisco
www.qconsf.com
Software Engineer at Airbnb since Feb ’14
Previously at Facebook building platform products
Currently on Internal Products Team
Alvin Sng
Internal Products
____________________________
Help Center
Customer Service Tool
Photography Tools
Admin Dashboards
Resolution Center
Working directly
with customers
Fast development
cycle
Full stack
engineers
Technology
freedom
Internal Products
Success 1 Success 2 Success 3
1
History &
Background
Better Data Complex UI Automation
Overview
History & Background
Host & Guest
interactions
____________________________
Number of guests on Airbnb
0
2500000
5000000
7500000
10000000
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Growing & Scaling
“The most successful businesses
have an idea for the future that's
very different from the present.”
Peter Thiel
Guest Host
Airbnb
Challenges • Increases in ticket volume
• Greater UI complexity and requirements
• Little useful data collected
• Slow response times from Airbnb
Final product
New Resolution Center
Landing Page
Documentation Page
Thread page
Product Success
Success 1: Better Data
Documentation Page
3
Documentation Page
Damage Reason
Average case
amount
Types of cases
rejected
Inaccurate
amenities
Cleanliness 

issues
Better Data
More data -> More opportunity
____________________________
Where are the most common locations with inaccurate amenities?
What are the most common expensive items damaged in a listing?
What types of cases have higher rates of escalation?
Success 2: Complex UI
React.js
Backbone Models
RouterJS
RESTAPI Gulp/Browserify
Tech Stack
React.js for views
Thread page
Currency conversion
Tooltip helpers
Amount validation
Decimal parsing
<AmountInput
onUpdate={this.onUpdateAmount}
amount={this.get('amount')}
currency={this.get('currency')} />
Thread page
Modular

design
Reusable
components
High 

performance
React.js
Success 3: Automation
Guest Host
A
I Offer $10 I Accept!
Auto Transfer
Airbnb
Transfer
http://www.airbnb.com/resolutions/1
airbnb.com/resolutions/1
Reduced costs Removes human
error
Saves customer
time
Instant resolution
Automated
payments
Accepted Cases: Before & After
Manual
Auto
Semi Auto
Manual
By automating resolution payments, we were able to
reduce our global ticket volume by 2.5%, saving Airbnb
resources and eliminating customer wait time.
Next steps
Better data
Complex UI
Automation
Success
Provides insight into next
opportunity
Reusable & modular components
speeds development
Further drives growth
Better Data Complex UI Automation
Watch the video with slide synchronization on
InfoQ.com!
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/airbnb-
resolution-center

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