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Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta

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140 points 7d7n | 4 comments | 18 Feb 21 16:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.746s | source
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dreamcompiler ◴[18 Feb 21 23:37 UTC] No.26187383[source]▶
OK I'll bite. Airbnb is a website. A hard-to-navigate, overproduced one, but it's still basically just a website coupled to a database. And it's not even as complex as Uber's because it doesn't need realtime GPS tracking of anything.

Why does Airbnb need a "tech hub?"

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Guest42 ◴[18 Feb 21 23:43 UTC] No.26187450[source]▶
Agreed, meanwhile large banks do things that are technically incredible but get seen as boring.
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1. stevenhuang ◴[18 Feb 21 23:52 UTC] No.26187535[source]▶
Such as?
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3. segmondy ◴[19 Feb 21 00:02 UTC] No.26187623[source]▶
moving billions of dollars daily with csv, tsv fixed-width files and sftp. /s
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4. Guest42 ◴[19 Feb 21 02:28 UTC] No.26188830[source]▶
Petabytes upon petabytes, and it has to be correct, really well archived, and set up for reporting, stats, and ad hoc