June 4, 2021 12:48 pm
Patrick Balestra: Senior Engineer
8:30am I’m at my best after nine hours’ sleep, so I tend to wake up pretty late, shower and dress as [...]
Author Archives for Spotify Engineering
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May 27, 2021 12:27 pmAchieving Team Purpose and Pride with Scrum
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high marks, but it was a long journey to get there [...]
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May 18, 2021 12:19 pmA Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s Autonomous Culture
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “Spotify: A Product Story”, we share stories and lessons from building and [...]
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May 11, 2021 6:50 pmSpotify Wins CNCF’s Top End User Award and Toots Own Horn About It
Last week, Spotify won an award — and we’re not playing it cool. We tweeted. We bragged on LinkedIn. Our [...]
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April 28, 2021 1:27 pmCustomization vs. Configuration in Evolving Design Systems
When a design system first starts out, the promise of visual consistency glows bright — the ideal product would have [...]
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April 26, 2021 2:42 pmNour Daoud Bösing: Security Engineer
Nour is a Security Engineer at Spotify New York – juggling her busy day job with completing her Masters in Cyber Security and looking after her 10-month-old daughter, Leya.
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April 15, 2021 1:30 pmRethinking Spotify Search
Search @ Spotify Search is a well-established functionality across different industries, devices, and applications. When users come to any kind [...]
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April 7, 2021 12:29 pmBuilding the Future of Our Desktop Apps
For the past couple of years, we’ve been on a mission to modernize our Spotify clients by creating one single [...]
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March 30, 2021 9:08 amDavid Riordan: Product Manager
5:00 am My days begin with an early morning wake-up call from Zev – he comes through at around 5am and [...]
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March 23, 2021 12:57 pmWhy You Should Pair with Non-Engineers
TL;DR Spotify encourages engineers to become T-shaped and lean into technologies and skill sets outside of their core specialization. Being [...]
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March 16, 2021 3:59 pmHappy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the open source project and the community we’re [...]
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March 10, 2021 2:42 pmSpotify’s New Experimentation Coordination Strategy
At Spotify we run hundreds of experiments at any given time. Coordinating these experiments, i.e., making sure the right user [...]
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March 9, 2021 1:00 amMatt Clarke: Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer
Matt is a Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer and has been at Spotify for two-and-a-half years. This time last year, he was living and working in London – but that’s all changed since the start of the pandemic…
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March 1, 2021 3:36 pm2020 Unwrapped: The people behind the numbers
2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain [...]
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March 1, 2021 2:49 pmDesigning a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers
TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t have to use all of your cluster management skills just [...]
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December 3, 2020 2:30 pmHow 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 experiment [...]
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November 4, 2020 6:59 pmIt’s All Just Wiggly Air: Building Infrastructure to Support Audio Research
TL;DR We just open sourced Klio — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. [...]
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November 2, 2020 7:28 pmSpotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 2)
So you’ve read Part I of our two-part series about the new Experimentation Platform we’ve built at Spotify, and now [...]
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October 29, 2020 3:16 pmSpotify’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 that [...]
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September 29, 2020 12:57 pmManaging 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, the ability [...]
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September 24, 2020 9:08 pmCloud 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 milestone for [...]
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September 21, 2020 1:57 pmSpotify Unwrapped 2019: How We Built an In-App Experience Just for You
As we prepare to launch 2020 Wrapped, we remind ourselves of the challenges we took on and lessons learned to [...]
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September 15, 2020 3:22 pmLemonade from Lemons: Tiny Desk Conference
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected [...]
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September 3, 2020 1:46 pmListening Together, Miles Apart
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you [...]
