Culture at Spotify My co-workers at Spotify often quote the famous Peter Drucker saying: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” And [...]
At Spotify, we actively manage more than 800 Google Cloud Platform projects. As such, maintaining a proper security posture at [...]
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” Ernest Hemingway Trust is the [...]
Five years ago, music personalization at Spotify was a tiny team. The team read papers, developed models, wrote data pipelines [...]
A little while back during a coaching book club, a few Spotify coaches started a discussion about a common pitfall [...]
Introduction When you log into Spotify, browse through your Discover Weekly playlist, and play a track, you’re interacting with some of our [...]
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
This is part three of a three-part series on how we created a career path framework for the individual contributors [...]
This is part two of a three part series on how we created a technical career path for individuals at [...]
Spotify launched a career path framework for individuals last year. Since then, I’ve spoken to leaders at several other companies [...]
Introduction In the previous post we talked about how the Internet finds its way to reach content and users; how Internet relations [...]
Introduction This is the first part of a series of posts about a project we have been working with for [...]
“You just talk to them for half an hour.” That’s the guideline I got when I first joined Spotify for [...]
What to Measure? In part 1, we already mentioned a few metrics that should be considered by the load balancer. Success [...]
Load Balancing Most Spotify clients connect to our back-end via accesspoint which forwards client requests to other servers. In the picture below, the accesspoint has [...]
WHAT IS DISCOVER WEEKLY? Every Monday Spotify delivers 75 million unique mixtapes to music lovers all over the world, we call [...]
This is the second part in a series about Monitoring at Spotify. In the previous post I discussed our history of operational [...]
This is the first in a two-part series about Monitoring at Spotify. In this, I’ll be discussing our history, the [...]
Story Lots of the UI of our iOS application is rendered through an internal framework called Ceramic. It’s a tool [...]
Illustrations by Jonas Ekman Since the dawn of time, man has used 32-bit addressing. When the first Homo Erectus crawled [...]
Foreword: This post was initiated by Andy Park, former agile coach here at Spotify. For years we’ve been experimenting with how to do “big [...]
In this blog post we focus on the web load balancers and various proxy systems across the Spotify perimeter. We [...]
