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Dec 24, 2019

Lynn Root: Staff Engineer

Lynn is one of our Staff Engineers and has just celebrated her six-year anniversary at Spotify. Starting out...
Published by Spotify Engineering
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Dec 16, 2019

Techbytes: Behind the Scenes with the Creator of Advent Code

By Eric Wastl. Advent of code is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles that can be solved using any...
Published by Spotify Engineering
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Dec 13, 2019

The Winding Road to Better Machine Learning Infrastructure Through Tensorflow Extended and Kubeflow

When Spotify launched in 2008 in Sweden, and in 2011 in the United States, people were amazed that they could...
Published by Josh Baer, Samuel Ngahane
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Dec 9, 2019

Views From The Cloud: A History of Spotify’s Journey to the Cloud, Part 1

Spotify’s Chief Architect, Niklas Gustavsson, was at the heart of the company’s journey to migrate its data...
Published by Niklas Gustavsson
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Nov 18, 2019

Test Flakiness – Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests

On September 12, 2019 I spoke at  in Toronto to talk about my journey with test flakiness at Spotify and some...
Published by Jason Palmer
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Nov 18, 2019

Techbytes: Machine Learning for Search at Slack

By Fiona Condon. Slack’s search makes the work history for collaborative teams discoverable and exploreable....
Published by Spotify Engineering
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Nov 12, 2019

Spotify’s Event Delivery – Life in the Cloud

Spotify is a data informed company and in such a company Event Delivery is a key component. Every event...
Published by Bartosz Janota, Robert Stephenson
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Oct 23, 2019

When in Rome: How Spotify halved build times with just one script

One of the great things about working at Spotify as an engineer, is the opportunity to improve the experience...
Published by Spotify Engineering
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Oct 16, 2019

Techbytes: Handling Big Data at Spotify

Hear from Spotify’s Erin Palmer, as she illustrates the use of Scio with Big Data, discusses why it makes...
Published by Spotify Engineering
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Oct 16, 2019

Techbytes: Data Processing with Scio

Neville Li shares Spotify’s history of data processing and our transition to Scio, an open-source Scala API...
Published by Spotify Engineering
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Oct 1, 2019

Solving documentation for monoliths and monorepos

At Spotify, we’re always trying to push the boundaries of the way the world experiences audio. In order to...
Published by Bilawal Hameed
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Sep 26, 2019

Techbytes: TypeScript – from “Assess” to “Use”

Discover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript within Spotify’s highly distributed...
Published by John Rodriguez
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Sep 12, 2019

Reflections on the Last Two Years of Spotify’s Bug Bounty Program

We recently surpassed the two year anniversary of our bug bounty program on the HackerOne platform. This gave...
Published by Nathan Ferch
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Sep 4, 2019

Techbytes: Scalable User Privacy – Crypto Shredding at Spotify

Engineer Bram Leenders, explains what crypto-shredding is, how Spotify uses it to respect users’ privacy —...
Published by Spotify Engineering
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Jul 3, 2019

web-scripts – creating NPM libraries in a snap at Spotify

At Spotify, we love sharing code. We have many autonomous teams creating new stuff every day, and we need to...
Published by Paul Marbach
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Jul 1, 2019

Behind the Scenes of Spotify’s NYC Technology Fellowship Program

It is no surprise that the tech industry lags behind on diversity standards and metrics, particularly in the...
Published by Mira Scarvalone, Belhorma Bendebiche
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Jun 4, 2019

Painting a Picture of Your Infrastructure in Minutes

As a Security responder, it is important to have access to relevant information quickly in order to get a...
Published by Carly Schneider, Fredrik Gustafsson
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May 30, 2019

Scio 0.7: a deep dive

Large-scale data processing is a critical component of Spotify’s business model. It drives music...
Published by Claire McGinty
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Apr 15, 2019

(Right to Left (The Mirror World

It might seem that there is something wrong with the title up there, right? This is one of the challenges...
Published by Tryggvi Gylfason
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Apr 9, 2019

An opinionated anthropology of the embedded programmer, its habits and habitat

Illustrations by Jonas Ekman
Published by Per Knytt
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Apr 4, 2019

Automated Incident Response Infrastructure in GCP

Incident responders want to have as much information as possible to ease the investigation and triage...
Published by Spotify Engineering
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Mar 28, 2019

Techbytes: Restoring Confidence in Microservices – Tracing That’s More Than Traces

Ben Sigelman, CEO of LightStep and co-author of the OpenTracing standard, stopped by our New York office to...
Published by Spotify Engineering
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Mar 25, 2019

Building Spotify’s New Web Player

The purpose of this post is to tell the story of the new Spotify web player. How and why it came to be. We...
Published by José M. Pérez