SDN Internet Router – Part 1
Introduction This is the first part of a series of posts about a project we have been working with for [...]
Published by dbarrosopIntroduction This is the first part of a series of posts about a project we have been working with for [...]
Published by dbarrosopWhat to Measure? In part 1, we already mentioned a few metrics that should be considered by the load balancer. Success [...]
Published by Lukáš PoláčekLoad 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 [...]
Published by Lukáš PoláčekThis is the second part in a series about Monitoring at Spotify. In the previous post I discussed our history of operational [...]
Published by John-John TedroThis is the first in a two-part series about Monitoring at Spotify. In this, I’ll be discussing our history, the [...]
Published by John-John TedroSpotify currently runs over 100 production-level Cassandra clusters. We use Cassandra across user-facing features, in our internal monitoring and analytics [...]
Published by Noel CodyAll of us are familiar with overflow bugs. However, sometimes you write code that counts on overflow. This is a [...]
Published by Lukáš PoláčekIntroduction All Spotify users are now stored in a Cassandra database instead of Postgres. The final switch was made on [...]
Published by Marcus VesterlundSix months ago, when we launched our Web API, we provided twelve endpoints through which developers could retrieve Spotify catalog [...]
Published by Chris HughesAt 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 BrownSpotify has built several real-time pipelines using Apache Storm for use cases like ad targeting, music recommendation, and data visualization. Each of these [...]
Published by Kinshuk MishraSometimes the answer to a sluggish data pipeline isn’t more power in the Hadoop cluster, but a shift in technique. [...]
Published by Noel CodyFor my master’s thesis, I developed and benchmarked an Apache Cassandra compaction strategy optimized for time series. The result, the [...]
Published by Björn HegerforsAll of our lovely Spotify users generate many terabytes of data every day. All the songs that are listened to, [...]
Published by davidawhitingAt Spotify we take user feedback seriously. We noticed some users complaining about our shuffling algorithm playing a few songs [...]
Published by Lukáš PoláčekA few weeks ago Spotify had one of the biggest incidents in the last few years. It caused a major [...]
Published by David Poblador i GarciaAt the heart of Spotify lives a massive and growing data-set. Most data is user-centric and allows us to provide [...]
Published by Jason PalmerAs we all know, Hadoop is great and here at Spotify we are big fans of it. We use it [...]
Published by Wouter de BieWe recently hosted the seventh sthlm.js meetup at our office and Paul Lewis of Google Chrome, Robert Nyman of Mozilla and our [...]
Published by Gabriel BonanderThe most frequent question we heard at PyCon this weekend, was how do we use Python at Spotify. Hopefully this post answers [...]
Published by Geoff van der MeerPowering the Spotify service is a backend of dozens of different, specialized service implementations. For example, we have a playlist system that [...]
Published by Björn EdströmIn this article I will explain how Spotify uses different mature and proven technologies in our backend service eco-system and [...]
Published by Björn EdströmIt was the middle of the night, 10th of May 2011, and were at step twentysomething of the rollout plan, [...]
Published by Björn EdströmSpotify makes a significant investment in writing code to automate the provisioning of servers in our data centers. Our goal is [...]
Published by Noa Resare