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For the past couple of years, we’ve been on a mission to modernize our Spotify clients by creating one single [...]
For the past couple of years, we’ve been on a mission to modernize our Spotify clients by creating one single [...]
5:00 am My days begin with an early morning wake-up call from Zev – he comes through at around 5am and [...]
TL;DR Spotify encourages engineers to become T-shaped and lean into technologies and skill sets outside of their core specialization. Being [...]
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the open source project and the community we’re [...]
At Spotify we run hundreds of experiments at any given time. Coordinating these experiments, i.e., making sure the right user [...]
Matt is a Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer and has been at Spotify for two-and-a-half years. This time last year, he was living and working in London – but that’s all changed since the start of the pandemic…
2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain [...]
TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t have to use all of your cluster management skills just [...]
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 [...]
