On September 12, 2019 I spoke at Assert(JS) in Toronto to talk about my journey with test flakiness at Spotify and some [...]
By Fiona Condon. Slack’s search makes the work history for collaborative teams discoverable and exploreable. Software engineer Fiona Condon explains [...]
Spotify is a data informed company and in such a company Event Delivery is a key component. Every event containing [...]
How do you cut iOS app build times by 50%? Patrick Balestra, an engineer at Spotify, explains how his team [...]
Hear from Spotify’s Erin Palmer, as she illustrates the use of Scio with Big Data, discusses why it makes certain [...]
Neville Li shares Spotify’s history of data processing and our transition to Scio, an open-source Scala API for Apache Beam [...]
At Spotify, we’re always trying to push the boundaries of the way the world experiences audio. In order to achieve [...]
Discover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript within Spotify’s highly distributed engineering community.
We recently surpassed the two year anniversary of our bug bounty program on the HackerOne platform. This gave us pause [...]
Engineer Bram Leenders, explains what crypto-shredding is, how Spotify uses it to respect users’ privacy — and how Padlock, our [...]
At Spotify, we love sharing code. We have many autonomous teams creating new stuff every day, and we need to [...]
It is no surprise that the tech industry lags behind on diversity standards and metrics, particularly in the field of [...]
As a Security responder, it is important to have access to relevant information quickly in order to get a more [...]
Introduction Large-scale data processing is a critical component of Spotify’s business model. It drives music recommendations, artist payouts based on [...]
Localization at Spotify is a big deal. Our mission is to “unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art [...]
Registers! Oscilloscopes! Beards! Serial Ports! C! Cycle shaving! Beards! Interrupts! Assembly! Did I mention beards? [...]
Incident responders want to have as much information as possible to ease the investigation and triage process [...]
Ben Sigelman, CEO of LightStep and co-author of the OpenTracing standard, stopped by our New York office to talk distributed [...]
The purpose of this post is to tell the story of the new Spotify web player. How and why it came to be. We will focus on what the steps were that led to a complete rewrite [...]
At Spotify we are moving to managed infrastructure solutions to focus more on our core competencies [...]
Have you ever been frustrated with the complicated experience of making charts in Python? We have [...]
At Spotify, we have a complex and diverse data processing ecosystem. Our backend infrastructure handles millions of requests per second, which are processed by over a thousand (micro)services [...]
Today, we announce that we are open sourcing cstar, our Cassandra orchestration tool [...]
We flipped one server flag and got more download bandwidth for Spotify users. That is the TL;DR of this A/B experiment with BBR, a new TCP option [...]
