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 [...]
Published by Erik Carlsson, Eirini Kakogianni
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
Coördinator is an open source browser interface to help you turn [...]
Published by Aliza Aufrichtig
This is part 4 in our new interview series called [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Anyone who has ever done manual testing knows that it’s slow, boring and error-prone. By writing automated tests we are trying to remove — or at the very least improve — on these pain points [...]
Published by André Schaffer
Spotify’s Event Delivery system is responsible for delivering hundreds of billions of events every day. Most of the events are generated as a response [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
In this part we’ll take a closer look at Scio, including basic concepts, its unique features, and concrete use cases here at Spotify [...]
Published by Neville Li
Changing an engineering culture is one of the biggest challenges for any organization. It requires challenging an existing way of working, and introducing compelling improvements [...]
Published by Nitzan Blouin
This is the first part of a 2 part blog series. In this series we will talk about Scio, a Scala API for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow, and [...]
Published by Neville Li
What’s your name and where are you from? My name [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Every day, Spotify users are generating more than 100 billion [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
Forward: This blog post accompanies our presentation given at SRECon 2017 in [...]
Published by Lynn Root
Five years ago, music personalization at Spotify was a tiny [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Introduction When you log into Spotify, browse through your Discover Weekly playlist, [...]
Published by Nic Cope
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
Introduction In the previous post we talked about how the Internet finds [...]
Published by dbarrosop
Introduction This is the first part of a series of [...]
Published by dbarrosop
What to Measure? In part 1, we already mentioned a few [...]
Published by Lukáš Poláček
Load Balancing Most Spotify clients connect to our back-end via accesspoint which [...]
Published by Lukáš Poláček
This is the second part in a series about Monitoring [...]
Published by John-John Tedro
This is the first in a two-part series about Monitoring [...]
Published by John-John Tedro
Spotify currently runs over 100 production-level Cassandra clusters. We use [...]
Published by Noel Cody
