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Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta

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140 points 7d7n | 1 comments | 18 Feb 21 16:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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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dreamcompiler ◴[19 Feb 21 00:24 UTC] No.26187813[source]▶
Exactly my point. I'd venture to guess that Marriott (another hotel company that actually owns their properties and thus arguably has more at stake) has a tech stack vastly more complicated than Airbnb's, and yet Marriott would never announce they're building a "tech hub" in any city.
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bpicolo ◴[19 Feb 21 02:23 UTC] No.26188782[source]▶
I think you are probably overestimating how enterprise does tech. Subcontracting, consultancies are the name of the game
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1. Guest42 ◴[19 Feb 21 02:32 UTC] No.26188851[source]▶
For me at least, I found banking to be incredible, teams of DBAs managing very expensive database servers to perfection and high scale web apps that almost always work correctly