Apr 23, 2025
Celebrating Five Years of Backstage: From Open Source Project to Enterprise Business
Did you know that we sell Spotify’s developer productivity tools and support to other companies, from online...
Dec 12, 2024
Building Confidence: A Case Study in How to Create Confidence Scores for GenAI Applications
TL;DR Getting a response from GenAI is quick and straightforward. But what about the confidence level for...
Sep 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...
Aug 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 are constantly...
May 28, 2024
Data Platform Explained Part II
Check out , where we started sharing the journey of building a data platform, its building blocks, and the...
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 starting it....
Apr 2, 2024
Data Platform Explained Part I
As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow...
Mar 5, 2024
Risk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics
TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, , where we explain how Spotify’s decision-making engine...
Dec 5, 2023
Recursive Embedding and Clustering
TL;DR Large sets of diverse data present several challenges for clustering, but through a novel approach that...
Oct 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...
Oct 20, 2023
Exclude from Your Taste Profile
Are you a parent forced to put the Bluey theme song on repeat? Do you work from home and play lofi beats or...
Sep 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 testing is the...
Aug 24, 2023
Encouragement Designs and Instrumental Variables for A/B Testing
At Spotify, . Most of these tests follow a standard design, where we assign users randomly to control and...