At Spotify we run hundreds of experiments at any given time. Coordinating these experiments, i.e., making sure the right user [...]
Published by Mårten Schultzberg, Oskar Kjellin, and Johan Rydberg
TL;DR We just open sourced Klio — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. [...]
Published by David Riordan and Lynn Root
So you’ve read Part I of our two-part series about the new Experimentation Platform we’ve built at Spotify, and now [...]
Published by Johan Rydberg
At Spotify we try to be as scientific as possible about how we build our products. Teams generate hypotheses that [...]
Published by Johan Rydberg
TL;DR The pursuit wasn’t always easy, but “putting data first” has helped Spotify dramatically improve the infrastructure team’s decision-making process [...]
Published by Raul Herbster
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 [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
TL;DR Have you made a significant decision that impacts how engineers write software? Write an ADR! An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is [...]
Published by Josef Blake
At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether we’re considering a big shift in our product strategy or [...]
Published by Andrew Maher
Hear from Spotify’s Erin Palmer, as she illustrates the use of Scio with Big Data, discusses why it makes certain [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Have you ever been frustrated with the complicated experience of making charts in Python? We have [...]
Published by Chris Halpert
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 [...]
Published by Bram Leenders
Here at Spotify, we love playlists. Playlists like Today’s Top Hits and RapCaviar have millions of loyal followers, while Discover Weekly [...]
Published by Ching-Wei Chen
This is part 2 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
WHAT IS DISCOVER WEEKLY? Every Monday Spotify delivers 75 million unique mixtapes to music lovers all over the world, we call [...]
Published by Sofie Lindblom
At Spotify we have have over 60 million active users who have access to a vast music catalog of over 30 million [...]
Published by Kinshuk Mishra and Matt Brown
At the heart of Spotify lives a massive and growing data-set. Most data is user-centric and allows us to provide [...]
Published by Jason Palmer
