ABOUT THE TALK

Real-time analytics at Airbnb is fluid and straightforward. This talk describes the solutions developed using Thrift, Kafka, Spark Streaming, Druid and Superset. Along the way, we will do a full tour of Superset and get to understand how it surpassed Tableau to become the most popular analytics tool at Airbnb. Superset is an open source, enterprise-ready, data exploration, visualization and dashboarding web application that integrates nicely with Druid as well as any SQL-speaking database. Attendees will get to understand how realtime analytics work at Airbnb while getting an extensive demo of Superset.