April 17, 2025
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Release the Spotify App (Part 1)
Developing and releasing mobile apps at scale is a big [...]
Published by Jacob Vesterlund, Senior EngineerDeveloper Tools
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March 25, 2025An Insider’s Tips for Taking the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam
TL;DR There’s a brand new engineering certification in town: Certified [...]
Published by André Wanlin, Customer Success Engineer, Spotify for Backstage -
November 25, 2024Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer -
July 10, 2024Technical Decision-Making in a Fragmented Space: Spotify In-Car Case Study
Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with [...]
Published by Maheen Khalid, Senior Engineer -
April 30, 2024Supercharged Developer Portals
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 -
February 7, 2024Applying the Facade Pattern on Spotify for Artists
At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to [...]
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January 24, 2024Exploring the Animation Landscape of 2023 Wrapped
Each year, we aim to elevate the Spotify Wrapped experience [...]
Published by Zela Taino (Senior Engineer) -
November 14, 2023The 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, 2023How 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, 2023Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly
At Spotify, we have experimented with the Bazel build system [...]
Published by Patrick Balestra, Staff Engineer -
June 28, 2023Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging
Messaging at Spotify At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate [...]
Published by Euan Dowers, Senior ML Engineer -
June 22, 2023Analyzing Volatile Memory on a Google Kubernetes Engine Node
TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across [...]
Published by Marcus Hallberg, Security Engineer -
June 15, 2023Experimenting at Scale, the Spotify Home Way
In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital [...]
Published by Nik Goyle, Product Manager -
May 25, 2023Multiple Layers of Abstraction in Design Systems
Check out our previous post — Customization & Configuration in [...]
Published by Charlie Eshleman, Design Systems Engineer -
May 15, 2023Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 3): Fleet-wide Refactoring
This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management [...]
Published by Matt Brown, Staff Engineer -
May 3, 2023Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 2): The Path to Declarative Infrastructure
This is part 2 in our series on Fleet Management [...]
Published by David Flemström, Principal Product Manager, and Alexander Buck, Senior Engineer -
April 18, 2023Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 1): Spotify’s Shift to a Fleet-First Mindset
This is part 1 in our series on Fleet Management [...]
Published by Niklas Gustavsson, VP, Engineering -
March 15, 2023Encore x Accessibility: A Balancing Act
On the Encore team (Spotify’s design system), there’s nothing we [...]
Published by Arielle Benedek (Product Manager), Rose Marantz (Web Engineer), and Tamas Geczy (Web Engineer) -
March 6, 2023Getting More from Your Team Health Checks
Watch Justin and Fiona speak about ‘Team Health Checks — [...]
Published by Justin Kotzé, Senior Agile Coach, and Fiona Siseman, Senior Agile Coach and Agile Coach Manager -
December 15, 2022Shipping Spotify’s Culture: 5 Plugins (and 4 Principles) for Supercharging Developer Experience at Scale
ICYMI Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today: the Spotify [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms -
November 8, 2022Spotify’s Vulnerability Management Platform
We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify [...]
Published by Yukio Mizuta (Sr. Backend Engineer) and Nurit Izrailov (Software Engineer) -
October 27, 2022How We Improved the Development Experience for our Client Developers
TL;DR The core motivation for Spotify’s Client Platform (CliP) team [...]
Published by Anna Granhed (Product Manager) and Nandini Singh (Senior Data Scientist) -
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October 25, 2022Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE
TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms -
September 29, 2022From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story
Some of the most common questions asked when it comes [...]
Published by Vinicius Teixeira Dallacqua, Engineer
