September 5, 2024
Engineering
Read about the magic behind the music & more.
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September 5, 2024
Are You a Dalia? How We Created Data Science Personas for Spotify’s Analytics Platform
On Spotify’s Analytics Platform, we’re dedicated to building products that empower data practitioners to discover, analyze, and share insights — [...]
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August 28, 2024
Unlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale
We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight teams and analysts from across the company ar... -
July 10, 2024
Technical Decision-Making in a Fragmented Space: Spotify In-Car Case Study
Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with drivers jamming to music or catch... -
May 28, 2024
Data Platform Explained Part II
Check out Data Platform Explained Part I, where we started sharing the journey of building a data... -
May 15, 2024
Fixed-Power Designs: It’s Not IF You Peek, It’s WHAT You Peek at
TL;DR Sometimes we cannot estimate the required sample size needed to power an experiment before ... -
April 30, 2024
Supercharged Developer Portals
Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the ... -
April 2, 2024
Data Platform Explained Part I
As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform... -
March 5, 2024
Risk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics
TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, Schultzberg, Ankargren, and Frånberg (2024),... -
February 7, 2024
Applying the Facade Pattern on Spotify for Artists
At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to our customers — which can somet... -
January 24, 2024
Exploring the Animation Landscape of 2023 Wrapped
Each year, we aim to elevate the Spotify Wrapped experience for our users, crafting captivating d... -
January 4, 2024
Q&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR Let’s cap the year by putting a spotlight on some of the valuable work people outside of Sp... -
December 5, 2023
Recursive Embedding and Clustering
TL;DR Large sets of diverse data present several challenges for clustering, but through a novel a... -
November 14, 2023
The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
Our daily tasks as engineers often involve implementing new functionalities. Existing users get t... -
November 8, 2023
Spotify Wins CNCF Top End User Award for the Second Time!
This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced... -
November 7, 2023
How We Automated Content Marketing to Acquire Users at Scale
Spotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms like Faceb... -
October 25, 2023
Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library
For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our... -
October 23, 2023
Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the Spotify FOSS Fund to help support the free and open so... -
October 20, 2023
Exclude from Your Taste Profile
What is “Exclude from your taste profile”? Are you a parent forced to put the Bluey theme song... -
October 17, 2023
Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly
At Spotify, we have experimented with the Bazel build system since 2017. Over the years, the proj... -
October 5, 2023
Managing Software at Scale: Kelsey Hightower Talks with Niklas Gustavsson about Fleet
How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up of 500+ squads managing over 10,000 so... -
September 28, 2023
How to Accurately Test Significance with Difference in Difference Models
When we want to determine the causal effect of a product or business change at Spotify, A/B testi... -
August 24, 2023
Encouragement Designs and Instrumental Variables for A/B Testing
At Spotify, we run a lot of A/B tests. Most of these tests follow a standard design, where we ass... -
August 16, 2023
Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation
As companies mature, it’s easy to believe that the core experience and most user needs have been ... -
August 3, 2023
Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify
TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of...