Airbnb Engineering
5/13/2026

Viaduct 1.0 and the future of Airbnb’s data mesh
Short summary
Airbnb released Viaduct 1.0, moving from internal tool to stable, open-source data mesh. It enables teams to build independent schema modules on a shared multi-tenant runtime without managing separate GraphQL services, solving the challenge of decentralized development within a central schema. Complementary to GraphQL Federation, Viaduct is now published to Maven Central with stable API guarantees.
- •Viaduct 1.0 provides a GraphQL-based data mesh for decentralized schema contributions
- •Multi-tenant architecture lets teams own portions of a schema without running separate services
- •Now stable with Maven Central publication and API compatibility guarantees
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