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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Apr 2, 2024

Data Platform Explained Part I

As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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