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2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain [...]
2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain [...]
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, Wrapped 2019, for [...]
TL;DR We just open sourced XCMetrics — a tool for Apple’s developer software, Xcode, that lets you collect, display, and [...]
What if, for some users, the very best Spotify is a little less Spotify? Spotify Lite started as an experiment [...]
TL;DR We just open sourced Klio — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. [...]
So you’ve read Part I of our two-part series about the new Experimentation Platform we’ve built at Spotify, and now [...]
At Spotify we try to be as scientific as possible about how we build our products. Teams generate hypotheses that [...]
Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in our cloud and data infrastructure. While seemingly routine, the ability [...]
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your playlists today, it’s just us celebrating a new milestone for [...]
As we prepare to launch 2020 Wrapped, we remind ourselves of the challenges we took on and lessons learned to [...]
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected [...]
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you [...]
Across Spotify, our teams diligently strive to fulfill our mission to “unlock the potential of human creativity by giving millions [...]
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures where humanity has become extinct and only one where humanity [...]
Erick joined our Stockholm office as an iOS Engineer more than 18 months ago. But right now, he’s working from home and missing the camaraderie of his close-knit team.
TL;DR The pursuit wasn’t always easy, but “putting data first” has helped Spotify dramatically improve the infrastructure team’s decision-making process [...]
Stuck in the long tail In our experience, big technology upgrade efforts or migrations (as we fondly call them at [...]
Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on Liked Songs enabled his team to address a much deeper [...]
Alia works as an Agile Coach Manager in our New York office. But right now, she’s 150km away – working from her house in the Hudson Valley and navigating a non-stop schedule of Hangout meetings.
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up to 75%. Who [...]
Backstage is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally for years, but only recently released the open source version. [...]
Ann is a Senior Research Scientist and has worked in our New York office for just over a year. She spoke to us from her apartment in Fort Greene, which she shares with her husband and two rescue dogs, Birdie and Buttercup [...]
Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more [...]
The launch of Shortcuts, which now appears at the top of Spotify Home, is an important step forward in how listeners [...]
