Airbnb open sources Skipper workflow engine

airbnb.tech5 min read

Airbnb has open-sourced Skipper, an embedded workflow engine designed to run inside Java and Kotlin services without a separate orchestration cluster. The engine allows developers to express multi-step business processes as code, persist state, and recover from crashes using checkpoints and replay. Skipper has been used in production across multiple Airbnb teams and is available under the Apache 2.0 license. Open article →