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 [...]
At Spotify, data rules all. We log a variety of data, from listening history, to results of A/B testing, to [...]
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every [...]
What’s the best way to assess your developers’ experience and performance to discover what they need help with? Is it [...]
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass a number of products, from mobile apps to web players [...]
8:30am I’m at my best after nine hours’ sleep, so I tend to wake up pretty late, shower and dress as [...]
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high marks, but it was a long journey to get there [...]
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “Spotify: A Product Story”, we share stories and lessons from building and [...]
Last week, Spotify won an award — and we’re not playing it cool. We tweeted. We bragged on LinkedIn. Our [...]
When a design system first starts out, the promise of visual consistency glows bright — the ideal product would have [...]
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.
Search @ Spotify Search is a well-established functionality across different industries, devices, and applications. When users come to any kind [...]
For the past couple of years, we’ve been on a mission to modernize our Spotify clients by creating one single [...]
5:00 am My days begin with an early morning wake-up call from Zev – he comes through at around 5am and [...]
TL;DR Spotify encourages engineers to become T-shaped and lean into technologies and skill sets outside of their core specialization. Being [...]
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the open source project and the community we’re [...]
At Spotify we run hundreds of experiments at any given time. Coordinating these experiments, i.e., making sure the right user [...]
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…
2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain [...]
TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t have to use all of your cluster management skills just [...]
