Engineering

On April 16, Spotify experienced an outage that affected users worldwide. Here is what happened and what we...

Developing and releasing mobile apps at scale is a big challenge. With each weekly release of our mobile app...

TL;DR There’s a brand new engineering certification in town: Certified Backstage Associate (CBA). Offered...

TL;DR Getting a response from GenAI is quick and straightforward. But what about the confidence level for...

TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help support the open...

With the fields of machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) continuing to rapidly evolve and expand,...

On Spotify’s Analytics Platform, we’re dedicated to building products that empower data practitioners to...

We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight teams and analysts from across the company are constantly...

Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with drivers jamming to music or catching up on...

Check out , where we started sharing the journey of building a data platform, its building blocks, and the...

TL;DR Sometimes we cannot estimate the required sample size needed to power an experiment before starting it....

Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source...

As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow...

TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, , where we explain how Spotify’s decision-making engine...

At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to our customers — which can sometimes be at...

Each year, we aim to elevate the Spotify Wrapped experience for our users, crafting captivating data stories...

TL;DR Let’s cap the year by putting a spotlight on some of the valuable work people outside of Spotify are...

TL;DR Large sets of diverse data present several challenges for clustering, but through a novel approach that...

Our daily tasks as engineers often involve implementing new functionalities. Existing users get to enjoy the...

This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that...

Spotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms like Facebook, Google...

For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our...

TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the to help support the free and open source software projects we use...

Are you a parent forced to put the Bluey theme song on repeat? Do you work from home and play lofi beats or...

At Spotify, we have experimented with the build system since 2017. Over the years, the project has matured,...

How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up of 500+ squads managing over 10,000 software...

When we want to determine the causal effect of a product or business change at Spotify, A/B testing is the...

At Spotify, . Most of these tests follow a standard design, where we assign users randomly to control and...

As companies mature, it’s easy to believe that the core experience and most user needs have been resolved,...

TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our...