March 4, 2022 2:47 pm
Jordan Loeser: Web Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… My main focus on Wrapped was the social media share cards – [...]
Author Archives for Spotify Engineering
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March 1, 2022 1:56 pmIntroducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving you a peek behind the curtain at Spotify R&D. Today, [...]
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February 28, 2022 3:59 pmSearch Journey Towards Better Experimentation Practices
At Spotify, we aim to build and improve our product in a data-informed way. To do that, teams are encouraged [...]
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February 22, 2022 6:26 pmMesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… I specialize in iOS Engineering and was one of a few iOS [...]
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February 16, 2022 1:11 pmFred Wang: Senior Backend Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… I’m part of the Mambas team at Spotify, which is responsible for [...]
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February 14, 2022 1:57 pmIntroducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size
At Spotify, we strive to make our apps available to as many people as possible. As mobile developers, that means [...]
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January 19, 2022 3:44 pmProduct Lessons from ML Home: Spotify’s One-Stop Shop for Machine Learning
Introduction Building platforms is a hard business. Building platforms for discerning machine learning (ML) practitioners with bespoke needs and a [...]
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December 17, 2021 4:02 pmThe Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical
TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express a user’s Audio Aura based on how they listened this [...]
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December 7, 2021 2:50 pmA Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You
What does it take to go from an idea for a new playlist, to shipping that playlist to Spotify users [...]
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December 2, 2021 4:36 pmHow Spotify Uses ML to Create the Future of Personalization
Machine learning is what drives personalization on Spotify. We may have a single platform with 381 million different users, but [...]
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November 18, 2021 3:13 pmThe Rise (and Lessons Learned) of ML Models to Personalize Content on Home (Part II)
In Part I of this two-part series, we talked about the challenges we faced with the models we use to [...]
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November 16, 2021 1:28 pmIntroducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%
At Spotify, we constantly work on creating the best developer experience possible for our iOS engineers. Improving build times is [...]
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November 15, 2021 4:44 pmThe Rise (and Lessons Learned) of ML Models to Personalize Content on Home (Part I)
At Spotify, our goal is to connect listeners with creators, and one way we do that is by recommending quality [...]
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October 20, 2021 1:28 pmChanging the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration
At Spotify, data rules all. We log a variety of data, from listening history, to results of A/B testing, to [...]
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October 5, 2021 1:00 pmA Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every [...]
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September 23, 2021 1:25 pmHow Backstage Made Our Developers More Effective — And How It Can Help Yours, Too
What’s the best way to assess your developers’ experience and performance to discover what they need help with? Is it [...]
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August 4, 2021 9:58 pmFour Lessons We Learned from Creating Spotify’s Desktop App
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass a number of products, from mobile apps to web players [...]
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June 4, 2021 12:48 pmPatrick 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 [...]
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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 [...]
