Airbnb open sourcing Airflow, Aerosolve for machine learning, data discoveries ZDNet

Airbnb is going open house on open source with a pair of new projects that double down on all that traveling data moving in. Plug-and-play machine learning data models that can instantly analyze information and provide intelligent insights? Yep, Microsoft has'em, it says. Unveiled at the company's OpenAir engineering summit in San Francisco on Thursday, the vacation rental wunderkind announced it was open sourcing two of its homegrown data mining products: Airflow and Aerosolve. Airflow is a workflow management platform built for authoring, scheduling and monitor data pipelines at scale in a timely manner -- an absolute necessity for a burgeoning global travel service that has exploded in the last few years.