New open source key-value store: sparkey
We recently published yet another of our internal projects as open source, following in the footsteps of our https://github.com/spotify/luigi and https://github.com/spotify/snakebite. The project [...]
We recently published yet another of our internal projects as open source, following in the footsteps of our https://github.com/spotify/luigi and https://github.com/spotify/snakebite. The project [...]
Spotify is a very frequent user of Puppet. We have given many talks and presentations on the subject but these [...]
Spotify supports unicode usernames which we are a bit proud of (not many services allow you to have ☃, the [...]
A few weeks ago Spotify had one of the biggest incidents in the last few years. It caused a major [...]
There are many blog posts, articles and tweets about DevOps out there on the internet. Some of them discuss the [...]
At the heart of Spotify lives a massive and growing data-set. Most data is user-centric and allows us to provide [...]
As we all know, Hadoop is great and here at Spotify we are big fans of it. We use it [...]
We recently hosted the seventh sthlm.js meetup at our office and Paul Lewis of Google Chrome, Robert Nyman of Mozilla and our [...]
The most frequent question we heard at PyCon this weekend, was how do we use Python at Spotify. Hopefully this post answers [...]
At Spotify we have our own “Agile à la Spotify” manifesto to create alignment and direction for our improvement work. [...]
backend infrastructure at Spotify. Our backend infrastructure is very much work in progress – in some areas we have come [...]
Powering the Spotify service is a backend of dozens of different, specialized service implementations. For example, we have a playlist system that [...]
In this article I will explain how Spotify uses different mature and proven technologies in our backend service eco-system and [...]
At Spotify we have been doing hack days for years. All engineers can use 10% of their time to work [...]
It was the middle of the night, 10th of May 2011, and were at step twentysomething of the rollout plan, [...]
Spotify makes a significant investment in writing code to automate the provisioning of servers in our data centers. Our goal is [...]