Introduction All Spotify users are now stored in a Cassandra database instead of Postgres. The final switch was made on [...]
Published by Marcus Vesterlund
Six months ago, when we launched our Web API, we provided twelve endpoints through which developers could retrieve Spotify catalog [...]
Published by Chris Hughes
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
Spotify 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 Mishra
Sometimes the answer to a sluggish data pipeline isn’t more power in the Hadoop cluster, but a shift in technique. [...]
Published by Noel Cody
For my master’s thesis, I developed and benchmarked an Apache Cassandra compaction strategy optimized for time series. The result, the [...]
Published by Björn Hegerfors
All of our lovely Spotify users generate many terabytes of data every day. All the songs that are listened to, [...]
Published by davidawhiting
A few weeks ago Spotify had one of the biggest incidents in the last few years. It caused a major [...]
Published by David Poblador i Garcia
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
As we all know, Hadoop is great and here at Spotify we are big fans of it. We use it [...]
Published by Wouter de Bie
We 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 Bonander
The 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 Meer
Powering the Spotify service is a backend of dozens of different, specialized service implementations. For example, we have a playlist system that [...]
Published by Björn Edström
In this article I will explain how Spotify uses different mature and proven technologies in our backend service eco-system and [...]
Published by Björn Edström
It was the middle of the night, 10th of May 2011, and were at step twentysomething of the rollout plan, [...]
Published by Björn Edström
Spotify makes a significant investment in writing code to automate the provisioning of servers in our data centers. Our goal is [...]
Published by Noa Resare
