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Author Archives for Spotify Engineering
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August 27, 2020 2:55 amHow We Improved Developer Productivity for Our DevOps Teams
Across Spotify, our teams diligently strive to fulfill our mission [...]
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August 17, 2020 5:47 pmHow We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures [...]
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July 24, 2020 2:14 pmErick Camacho: iOS Engineer
Erick joined our Stockholm office as an iOS Engineer more than 18 months ago. But right now, he’s working from home and missing the camaraderie of his close-knit team.
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July 22, 2020 2:49 pmLeveraging Mobile Infrastructure with Data-Driven Decisions
TL;DR The pursuit wasn’t always easy, but “putting data first” [...]
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June 25, 2020 2:49 pmTech Migrations, the Spotify Way
Stuck in the long tail In our experience, big technology [...]
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May 28, 2020 3:10 pmSpotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices
Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on [...]
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May 18, 2020 1:41 pmAlia Rose Connor: Agile Coach Manager
Alia works as an Agile Coach Manager in our New York office. But right now, she’s 150km away – working from her house in the Hudson Valley and navigating a non-stop schedule of Hangout meetings.
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May 1, 2020 3:54 pmHow We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification [...]
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April 21, 2020 4:26 pmHow We Use Backstage at Spotify
Backstage is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally [...]
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April 17, 2020 5:13 pmAnn Clifton: Senior Research Scientist
Ann is a Senior Research Scientist and has worked in our New York office for just over a year. She spoke to us from her apartment in Fort Greene, which she shares with her husband and two rescue dogs, Birdie and Buttercup [...]
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April 16, 2020 5:57 pmIntroducing the Spotify Podcast Dataset and TREC Challenge 2020
Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more [...]
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April 15, 2020 6:53 pmReach for the Top: How Spotify Built Shortcuts in Just Six Months
The launch of Shortcuts, which now appears at the top of [...]
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April 14, 2020 12:02 pmWhen Should I Write an Architecture Decision Record
TL;DR Have you made a significant decision that impacts how [...]
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April 1, 2020 12:09 pmStefan Ålund: Senior Product Manager
Stefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the world – is working from home, [...]
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March 25, 2020 12:25 pmSpotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch
This week, we launched our podcasts API. This means that our new API is now open to third-party developers! Third-party apps can now connect to Spotify [...]
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March 18, 2020 12:34 pmTony Jebara: VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning
Tony joined Spotify New York last summer as VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning. Here, he talks us through his busy working days and explains why he’s glad to be part of the band [...]
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March 17, 2020 12:40 pmWhat the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown [...]
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March 3, 2020 12:56 pmPer Wendin: Head of Patents
Per is our Head of Patents and has worked at Spotify in Stockholm for almost three years. For him, the working day begins and ends with an invigorating commute by bike [...]
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February 27, 2020 5:11 pmHow We Improved Data Discovery for Data Scientists at Spotify
At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether [...]
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February 26, 2020 2:37 pmTechbytes: What The Industry Misses About Incidents and What You Can Do
Hear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and [...]
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February 24, 2020 10:48 amHow Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience
A business with eyes on the future Spotify built its [...]
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February 18, 2020 11:23 amSpotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social [...]
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February 18, 2020 11:03 amDave Zolotusky: Senior Staff Engineer
Dave moved to Stockholm three years ago and works for Spotify as a Senior Staff Engineer. He and his wife are now happily settled into Swedish life – and his two young children [...]
