April 17, 2025 1:47 pm
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Release the Spotify App (Part 1)
Developing and releasing mobile apps at scale is a big [...]
Author Archives for Spotify Engineering
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March 25, 2025 10:00 amAn Insider’s Tips for Taking the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam
TL;DR There’s a brand new engineering certification in town: Certified [...]
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December 12, 2024 5:56 pmBuilding 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...
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November 25, 2024 2:00 pmCongratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created [...]
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October 21, 2024 2:19 pmHow We Generated Millions of Content Annotations
With the fields of machine learning (ML) and generative AI [...]
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September 5, 2024 7:15 pmAre 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 [...]
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August 28, 2024 7:29 pmUnlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale
We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight [...]
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July 10, 2024 3:53 pmTechnical Decision-Making in a Fragmented Space: Spotify In-Car Case Study
Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with [...]
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May 28, 2024 6:44 pmData Platform Explained Part II
Check out Data Platform Explained Part I, where we started [...]
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May 15, 2024 3:07 pmFixed-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 [...]
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April 30, 2024 9:00 amSupercharged Developer Portals
Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source framework for building IDPs.
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April 2, 2024 9:36 pmData Platform Explained Part I
As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining [...]
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March 5, 2024 6:03 pmRisk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics
TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, Schultzberg, [...]
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February 7, 2024 4:30 pmApplying the Facade Pattern on Spotify for Artists
At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to [...]
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January 24, 2024 3:21 pmExploring the Animation Landscape of 2023 Wrapped
Each year, we aim to elevate the Spotify Wrapped experience [...]
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January 4, 2024 3:16 pmQ&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR Let’s cap the year by putting a spotlight on [...]
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December 5, 2023 5:12 pmRecursive Embedding and Clustering
Large sets of diverse data present several challenges for clustering, but through a novel approach that combines dimensionality reduction, recursion, and supervised machine learning, we’ve been able to obtain strong results.
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November 14, 2023 1:49 pmThe What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
Sometimes a shiny new feature brings more harm than good. The reason is simple — application size. Any addition to the application — be it code for a new feature, an image resource for a new button or even support for a new localization — contributes to the increase of the application’s size.
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November 8, 2023 5:13 pmSpotify Wins CNCF Top End User Award for the Second Time!
This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that Spotify won their Top End User Award.
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November 7, 2023 2:35 amHow We Automated Content Marketing to Acquire Users at Scale
Spotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms. Being efficient with our marketing budget is critical for maximizing the return on ad spend.
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October 25, 2023 7:50 pmIntroducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library
For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search [...]
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October 23, 2023 1:59 pmAnnouncing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the Spotify FOSS [...]
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October 20, 2023 2:33 pmExclude from Your Taste Profile
What is “Exclude from your taste profile”? Are you a [...]
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October 17, 2023 1:31 pmSwitching Build Systems, Seamlessly
At Spotify, we have experimented with the Bazel build system [...]
