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November 14, 2023
The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size

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)
November 7, 2023
How We Automated Content Marketing to Acquire Users at Scale

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)
October 17, 2023
Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly

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
June 28, 2023
Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging

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
June 22, 2023
Analyzing Volatile Memory on a Google Kubernetes Engine Node

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
June 15, 2023
Experimenting at Scale, the Spotify Home Way

Introduction In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital role in enhancing user experiences. At Spotify, our Home [...]
Published by Nik Goyle, Product Manager
May 25, 2023
Multiple Layers of Abstraction in Design Systems

Check out our previous post — Customization & Configuration in Design Systems — for more about how we define APIs [...]
Published by Charlie Backus, Design Systems Engineer
May 15, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 3): Fleet-wide Refactoring

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
May 3, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 2): The Path to Declarative Infrastructure

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
April 18, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 1): Spotify’s Shift to a Fleet-First Mindset

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
March 15, 2023
Encore x Accessibility: A Balancing Act

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)
March 6, 2023
Getting More from Your Team Health Checks

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
December 15, 2022
Shipping Spotify’s Culture: 5 Plugins (and 4 Principles) for Supercharging Developer Experience at Scale

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
November 8, 2022
Spotify’s Vulnerability Management Platform

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)
October 27, 2022
How We Improved the Development Experience for our Client Developers

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)
October 25, 2022
Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE

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
September 29, 2022
From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story

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
August 23, 2022
How We Maintain Security Testing within the Software Development Life Cycle

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
July 25, 2022
Software Visualization — Challenge, Accepted

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)
May 12, 2022
Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents

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
April 14, 2022
Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically

In 2017, we launched the Spotify Connect Web API, a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, [...]
Published by Josh Brown, Senior Developer Advocate
March 14, 2022
Why We Switched Our Data Orchestration Service

TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined in 1,000+ repositories, owned by 300+ teams — daily. The [...]
Published by Guillaume Perchais, Sr. Product Manager
March 9, 2022
Chantal Delfeld: Engineer

7:00am My early mornings are spent running about after my children – getting them dressed, giving them breakfast and putting on [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
March 1, 2022
Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers

TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving you a peek behind the curtain at Spotify R&D. Today, [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer

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