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Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in our cloud and data infrastructure. While seemingly routine, the ability [...]
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 [...]
TL;DR Have you made a significant decision that impacts how engineers write software? Write an ADR! An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is [...]
Stefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the world – is working from home, [...]
This week, we launched our podcasts API. This means that our new API is now open to third-party developers! Third-party apps can now connect to Spotify [...]
Tony joined Spotify New York last summer as VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning. Here, he talks us through his busy working days and explains why he’s glad to be part of the band [...]
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via [...]
Per is our Head of Patents and has worked at Spotify in Stockholm for almost three years. For him, the working day begins and ends with an invigorating commute by bike [...]
At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether we’re considering a big shift in our product strategy or [...]
