August 27, 2015
Underflow bug
All of us are familiar with overflow bugs. However, sometimes [...]
Published by Lukáš PoláčekData
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June 23, 2015Switching user database on a running system
Introduction All Spotify users are now stored in a Cassandra [...]
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March 9, 2015Understanding the Spotify Web API
Six months ago, when we launched our Web API, we [...]
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January 9, 2015Personalization at Spotify using Cassandra
At Spotify we have have over 60 million active users who have [...]
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January 5, 2015How Spotify Scales Apache Storm
Spotify has built several real-time pipelines using Apache Storm for [...]
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December 19, 2014Solving MapReduce Performance Problems With Sharded Joins
Sometimes the answer to a sluggish data pipeline isn’t more [...]
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December 18, 2014Date-Tiered Compaction in Apache Cassandra
For my master’s thesis, I developed and benchmarked an Apache [...]
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November 27, 2014Data Processing with Apache Crunch at Spotify
All of our lovely Spotify users generate many terabytes of [...]
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June 4, 2013Incident Management at Spotify
A few weeks ago Spotify had one of the biggest [...]
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May 13, 2013Analytics at Spotify
At the heart of Spotify lives a massive and growing [...]
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May 7, 2013Snakebite: a pure Python HDFS client
As we all know, Hadoop is great and here at [...]
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April 11, 2013sthlm.js #7 @ Spotify
We recently hosted the seventh sthlm.js meetup at our office and Paul [...]
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March 20, 2013How we use Python at Spotify
The most frequent question we heard at PyCon this weekend, was how [...]
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March 6, 2013Achieving fault-tolerance with intelligent daemons
Powering the Spotify service is a backend of dozens of [...]
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February 25, 2013In praise of “boring” technology
In this article I will explain how Spotify uses different [...]
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January 28, 2013Rock the night
It was the middle of the night, 10th of May [...]
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January 28, 2013Finding the right needle in the kernel haystack
Spotify makes a significant investment in writing code to automate the [...]
Published by Noa Resare
