Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with drivers jamming to music or catching up on podcasts or [...]
Published by Maheen Khalid, Senior Engineer
Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source framework for building IDPs.
Published by Pia Nilsson, Senior Director of Engineering, Platform Developer Experience
At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to our customers — which can sometimes be at odds with [...]
Published by Rich Soni (Senior Fullstack Engineer)
Each year, we aim to elevate the Spotify Wrapped experience for our users, crafting captivating data stories and pushing the [...]
Published by Zela Taino (Senior Engineer)
Sometimes a shiny new feature brings more harm than good. The reason is simple — application size. Any addition to the application — be it code for a new feature, an image resource for a new button or even support for a new localization — contributes to the increase of the application’s size.
Published by Viktor Petrovski (Android Engineer), Dmitry Povolotskyi (Senior iOS Engineer), and Bruno Rocha (Senior iOS Engineer)
Spotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms. Being efficient with our marketing budget is critical for maximizing the return on ad spend.
Published by Bryan Maloney (Senior Engineering Manager), Christopher Tang, (Senior ML Engineer), Deepak Bhat (Senior Data Engineer), and Ryan Kim (Senior Product Manager)
At Spotify, we have experimented with the Bazel build system since 2017. Over the years, the project has matured, and [...]
Published by Patrick Balestra, Staff Engineer
Messaging at Spotify At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate with our listeners all over the world. Our Messaging team [...]
Published by Euan Dowers, Senior ML Engineer
TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across our entire organization in five regions where our main production [...]
Published by Marcus Hallberg, Security Engineer
In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital role in enhancing user experiences. At Spotify, our Home serves [...]
Published by Nik Goyle, Product Manager
Check out our previous post — Customization & Configuration in Design Systems — for more about how we define APIs [...]
Published by Charlie Backus, Design Systems Engineer
This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. [...]
Published by Matt Brown, Staff Engineer
This is part 2 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. [...]
Published by David Flemström, Principal Product Manager, and Alexander Buck, Senior Engineer
This is part 1 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. [...]
Published by Niklas Gustavsson, VP, Engineering
On the Encore team (Spotify’s design system), there’s nothing we love more than collaborating with our fellow squads — (1) [...]
Published by Arielle Benedek (Product Manager), Rose Marantz (Web Engineer), and Tamas Geczy (Web Engineer)
Watch Justin and Fiona speak about ‘Team Health Checks — One Size Does Not Fit All’ at the Spotify Engineering [...]
Published by Justin Kotzé, Senior Agile Coach, and Fiona Siseman, Senior Agile Coach and Agile Coach Manager
ICYMI Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today: the Spotify Plugins for Backstage bundle subscription. Some of these commercial plugins [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms
We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify in Q2, 2020, and now that we’ve implemented it and [...]
Published by Yukio Mizuta (Sr. Backend Engineer) and Nurit Izrailov (Software Engineer)
TL;DR The core motivation for Spotify’s Client Platform (CliP) team is empowering and unblocking client developers and giving teams the [...]
Published by Anna Granhed (Product Manager) and Nandini Singh (Senior Data Scientist)](https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/10/spotify-climate-engineering.png)
TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero emissions by 2030, we’ve made climate action one of our [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms
Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders [...]
Published by Vinicius Teixeira Dallacqua, Engineer
TL;DR The software development life cycle (SDLC) has always been followed by functional testing to ensure software solutions have all [...]
Published by Edina Muminovic, Engineering Manager
TL;DR Architectural diagrams are the bread and butter of software design and a foundational tool for communication and collaboration on [...]
Published by Renato Kalman (Sr. Engineer) and Johan Wallin (Staff Engineer)
This past year, a few of us who focus on the reliability of Spotify for Artists (S4A) spent some time [...]
Published by Clint Byrum, Staff Engineer
