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This past year, a few of us who focus on the reliability of Spotify for Artists (S4A) spent some time [...]
This past year, a few of us who focus on the reliability of Spotify for Artists (S4A) spent some time [...]
In September 2020, we had the exciting opportunity to partner with The Marcy Lab School with the hopes of creating [...]
Spotify Live (formerly Spotify Greenroom) is a platform that democratizes live audio streams. Creators are able to create rooms and [...]
TLDR: Spotify is starting a Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund) to pay maintainers of independent projects. This [...]
In 2017, we launched the Spotify Connect Web API, a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, [...]
TL;DR: Using the properties of the Poisson bootstrap algorithm and quantile estimators, we have been able to reduce the computational [...]
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… As Tech Lead for Wrapped, I was in charge of laying out [...]
Beyond term-based Search Until recently, Search at Spotify relied mostly on term matching. For example, if you type the query [...]
TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined in 1,000+ repositories, owned by 300+ teams — daily. The [...]
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system used at Spotify. [...]
7:00am My early mornings are spent running about after my children – getting them dressed, giving them breakfast and putting on [...]
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… My main focus on Wrapped was the social media share cards – [...]
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving you a peek behind the curtain at Spotify R&D. Today, [...]
At Spotify, we aim to build and improve our product in a data-informed way. To do that, teams are encouraged [...]
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… I specialize in iOS Engineering and was one of a few iOS [...]
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… I’m part of the Mambas team at Spotify, which is responsible for [...]
At Spotify, we strive to make our apps available to as many people as possible. As mobile developers, that means [...]
Introduction Building platforms is a hard business. Building platforms for discerning machine learning (ML) practitioners with bespoke needs and a [...]
TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express a user’s Audio Aura based on how they listened this [...]
What does it take to go from an idea for a new playlist, to shipping that playlist to Spotify users [...]
Machine learning is what drives personalization on Spotify. We may have a single platform with 381 million different users, but [...]
In Part I of this two-part series, we talked about the challenges we faced with the models we use to [...]
At Spotify, we constantly work on creating the best developer experience possible for our iOS engineers. Improving build times is [...]
At Spotify, our goal is to connect listeners with creators, and one way we do that is by recommending quality [...]
