December 8, 2015 8:24 am
ELS: latency based load balancer, part 1
Load Balancing Most Spotify clients connect to our back-end via accesspoint which [...]
Author Archives for Spotify Engineering
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November 18, 2015 8:56 amWhat made Discover Weekly one of our most successful feature launches to date?
WHAT IS DISCOVER WEEKLY? Every Monday Spotify delivers 75 million unique [...]
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November 17, 2015 12:29 pmMonitoring at Spotify: Introducing Heroic
This is the second part in a series about Monitoring [...]
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November 16, 2015 2:40 pmMonitoring at Spotify: The Story So Far
This is the first in a two-part series about Monitoring [...]
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November 11, 2015 3:06 pmImproving the accessibility on our iOS client
Story Lots of the UI of our iOS application is [...]
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November 5, 2015 7:49 amOh IPv6, Where Art Thou
Illustrations by Jonas Ekman Since the dawn of time, man [...]
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November 5, 2015 6:38 amHow we do large scale retrospectives
Foreword: This post was initiated by Andy Park, former agile coach here at Spotify. [...]
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October 9, 2015 2:33 amDesigning the Spotify perimeter
In this blog post we focus on the web load [...]
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September 21, 2015 2:26 pmCassandra: Data-Driven Configuration
Spotify currently runs over 100 production-level Cassandra clusters. We use [...]
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September 1, 2015 1:22 pmDealing with Java linking problems
Dependency Hell Most Java developers have probably run into problems [...]
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August 27, 2015 9:20 amUnderflow bug
All of us are familiar with overflow bugs. However, sometimes [...]
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June 25, 2015 9:53 amGenerating test cases so you don’t have to
In my spare time, I have developed a C++ framework [...]
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June 23, 2015 11:52 amSwitching user database on a running system
Introduction All Spotify users are now stored in a Cassandra [...]
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April 21, 2015 2:56 pmRAMLfications – Python package to parse RAML
A few of us at Spotify are infatuated with RAML – a [...]
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March 19, 2015 1:30 pmIntroducing git-test
Git is an incredible tool, but it isn’t magical and [...]
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March 9, 2015 12:05 amUnderstanding the Spotify Web API
Six months ago, when we launched our Web API, we [...]
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January 13, 2015 11:19 amDiversify – Creating a Hackathon with 50/50 Female and Male Participants
There have been many efforts during the past few years [...]
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January 9, 2015 8:57 pmPersonalization at Spotify using Cassandra
At Spotify we have have over 60 million active users who have [...]
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January 5, 2015 6:59 pmHow Spotify Scales Apache Storm
Spotify has built several real-time pipelines using Apache Storm for [...]
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December 19, 2014 1:57 pmSolving MapReduce Performance Problems With Sharded Joins
Sometimes the answer to a sluggish data pipeline isn’t more [...]
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December 18, 2014 1:36 pmDate-Tiered Compaction in Apache Cassandra
For my master’s thesis, I developed and benchmarked an Apache [...]
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November 27, 2014 5:10 pmData Processing with Apache Crunch at Spotify
All of our lovely Spotify users generate many terabytes of [...]
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September 20, 2014 4:21 pmSpotify engineering culture (part 2)
Here’s part 2 of the animated video describing our engineering [...]
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September 16, 2014 7:45 amSquad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve
For more recent information on Spotify’s Health Check model, check [...]
