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Dec 3, 2020
How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later
What if, for some users, the very best Spotify is a little less Spotify? Spotify Lite started as an...
Published by Erik Ghonyan (Senior Engineer), Slava Savitskiy (Senior Engineer), and Tommy Tynjä (Engineering Manager)
Nov 4, 2020
It’s All Just Wiggly Air: Building Infrastructure to Support Audio Research
TL;DR — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. Based on...
Published by David Riordan and Lynn Root
Nov 2, 2020
Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 2)
So you’ve read of our two-part series about the new Experimentation Platform we’ve built at Spotify, and now...
Published by Johan Rydberg
Oct 29, 2020
Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 1)
At Spotify we try to be as scientific as possible about how we build our products. Teams generate hypotheses...
Published by Johan Rydberg
Sep 29, 2020
Managing Clouds from the Ground Up: Cost Engineering at Spotify
Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in our cloud and data infrastructure. While seemingly routine,...
Published by Janisa Anandamohan
Sep 24, 2020
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your playlists today, it’s just us celebrating a new...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Sep 21, 2020
Spotify Unwrapped 2019: How We Built an In-App Experience Just for You
As we prepare to launch , we remind ourselves of the challenges we took on and lessons learned to make this...
Published by Javier Moscardó Marichalar (Mosca)
Sep 15, 2020
Lemonade from Lemons: Tiny Desk Conference
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It...
Published by Erin Depew
Sep 3, 2020
Listening Together, Miles Apart
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you...
Published by Gandalf Hernandez
Aug 27, 2020
How We Improved Developer Productivity for Our DevOps Teams
Across Spotify, our teams diligently strive to fulfill our mission to “unlock the potential of human...
Published by Maria Jernström and Jason Palmer
Aug 17, 2020
How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures where humanity has become extinct and only...
Published by Gary Niemen
Jul 24, 2020
Erick Camacho: iOS Engineer
Erick joined our Stockholm office as an iOS Engineer more than 18 months ago. But right now, he’s working...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Jul 22, 2020
Leveraging Mobile Infrastructure with Data-Driven Decisions
TL;DR The pursuit wasn’t always easy, but “putting data first” has helped Spotify dramatically improve the...
Published by Raul Herbster
Jun 25, 2020
Tech Migrations, the Spotify Way
In our experience, big technology upgrade efforts or migrations (as we fondly call them at Spotify) gear up...
Published by Saunak “Jai” Chakrabarti and Jenni Lee
May 28, 2020
Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices
Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on Liked Songs enabled his team to address a...
Published by Spotify Engineering
May 18, 2020
Alia Rose Connor: Agile Coach Manager
Alia works as an Agile Coach Manager in our New York office. But right now, she’s 150km away – working from...
Published by Spotify Engineering
May 1, 2020
How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Apr 21, 2020
How We Use Backstage at Spotify
is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally for years, but only recently...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Apr 17, 2020
Ann Clifton: Senior Research Scientist
Ann is a Senior Research Scientist and has worked in our New York office for just over a year. She spoke to...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Apr 16, 2020
Introducing the Spotify Podcast Dataset and TREC Challenge 2020
Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Apr 15, 2020
Reach for the Top: How Spotify Built Shortcuts in Just Six Months
The , which now appears at the top of Spotify Home, is an important step forward in how listeners experience...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Apr 14, 2020
When Should I Write an Architecture Decision Record
An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is a document that captures a decision, including the context of how...
Published by Josef Blake
Apr 1, 2020
Stefan Ålund: Senior Product Manager
Stefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Mar 25, 2020
Spotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch
This week, we launched our ! Third-party apps can now connect to Spotify and manage a user’s podcast library,...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Mar 18, 2020
Tony Jebara: VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning
Tony joined Spotify New York last summer as VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning. Here, he talks us...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Mar 17, 2020
What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
Yesterday, we released the open source version of , our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Mar 3, 2020
Per Wendin: Head of Patents
Per is our Head of Patents and has worked at Spotify in Stockholm for almost three years. For him, the...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Feb 27, 2020
How We Improved Data Discovery for Data Scientists at Spotify
At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether we’re considering a big shift in...
Published by Andrew Maher
Feb 26, 2020
Techbytes: What The Industry Misses About Incidents and What You Can Do
Hear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and one of the leading members of the DevOps movement – as he...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Feb 24, 2020
How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience
Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up more than 50...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Feb 18, 2020
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
The is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a...
Published by Bindia Kalra, Catie Edwards, Zoe Tiet
Feb 18, 2020
Dave Zolotusky: Senior Staff Engineer
Dave moved to Stockholm three years ago and works for Spotify as a Senior Staff Engineer. He and his wife are...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Feb 6, 2020
Techbytes: Hans Dockter discusses Developer Productivity Engineering
Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Feb 5, 2020
Ajay Kalia: Group Product Manager
Ajay is a Group Product Manager on the Voice team and has worked in our Boston office ever since it was set...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Jan 18, 2020
Anna Smith: Staff Engineer
Anna started at our New York office three years ago and has recently been promoted to Staff Engineer. She and...
Published by Spotify Engineering
Jan 16, 2020
For Your Ears Only: Personalizing Spotify Home with Machine Learning
This article is based on the keynote given by Tony Jebara at TensorFlow World in Santa Clara, California,...
Published by Spotify Engineering
