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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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