May 7, 2013
Snakebite: a pure Python HDFS client
As we all know, Hadoop is great and here at Spotify we are big fans of it. We use it [...]
Published by Wouter de BieData
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April 11, 2013sthlm.js #7 @ Spotify
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 -
March 20, 2013How we use Python at Spotify
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 -
March 6, 2013Achieving fault-tolerance with intelligent daemons
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 -
February 25, 2013In praise of “boring” technology
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 -
January 28, 2013Rock the night
It was the middle of the night, 10th of May 2011, and were at step twentysomething of the rollout plan, [...]
Published by Björn Edström -
January 28, 2013Finding the right needle in the kernel haystack
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
