May 12, 2022
Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents
This past year, a few of us who focus on [...]
Published by Clint Byrum, Staff EngineerDeveloper Tools
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April 14, 2022Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically
In 2017, we launched the Spotify Connect Web API, a [...]
Published by Josh Brown, Senior Developer Advocate -
March 14, 2022Why We Switched Our Data Orchestration Service
TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined [...]
Published by Guillaume Perchais, Sr. Product Manager -
March 9, 2022Chantal Delfeld: Engineer
7:00am My early mornings are spent running about after my [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
March 1, 2022Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer -
November 18, 2021The Rise (and Lessons Learned) of ML Models to Personalize Content on Home (Part II)
In Part I of this two-part series, we talked about [...]
Published by Annie Edmundson, Engineer -
November 16, 2021Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%
At Spotify, we constantly work on creating the best developer [...]
Published by Bartosz Polaczyk, Senior Engineer -
November 15, 2021The Rise (and Lessons Learned) of ML Models to Personalize Content on Home (Part I)
At Spotify, our goal is to connect listeners with creators, [...]
Published by Annie Edmundson, Engineer -
October 20, 2021Changing the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration
At Spotify, data rules all. We log a variety of [...]
Published by Flavio Santos (Data Infrastructure Engineer) and Robert Stephenson (Senior Product Manager) -
September 23, 2021How Backstage Made Our Developers More Effective — And How It Can Help Yours, Too
What’s the best way to assess your developers’ experience and [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
September 7, 2021Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects [...]
Published by Peter Sobot, Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Spotify Audio Intelligence Lab -
June 4, 2021Patrick Balestra: Senior Engineer
8:30am I’m at my best after nine hours’ sleep, so [...]
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May 27, 2021Achieving Team Purpose and Pride with Scrum
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high [...]
Published by Sophia Ciocca, Web Engineer -
May 11, 2021Spotify Wins CNCF’s Top End User Award and Toots Own Horn About It
Last week, Spotify won an award — and we’re not [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer & CNCF Technical Oversight Committee Representative -
April 28, 2021Customization vs. Configuration in Evolving Design Systems
When a design system first starts out, the promise of [...]
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April 15, 2021Rethinking Spotify Search
Search @ Spotify Search is a well-established functionality across different [...]
Published by Hugo Galvão and Daniel Doro -
April 7, 2021Building the Future of Our Desktop Apps
For the past couple of years, we’ve been on a [...]
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March 16, 2021Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our [...]
Published by Tyson Singer -
March 1, 2021Designing a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers
TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t [...]
Published by Matthew Clarke, Senior Engineer -
February 11, 2021How Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped [...]
Published by Neville Li, Claire McGinty, Sahith Nallapareddy, & Joel Östlund -
January 20, 2021Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics
TL;DR We just open sourced XCMetrics — a tool for [...]
Published by Patrick Balestra, Sr. Engineer -
September 29, 2020Managing Clouds from the Ground Up: Cost Engineering at Spotify
Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in [...]
Published by Janisa Anandamohan -
September 24, 2020Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
September 3, 2020Listening Together, Miles Apart
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press [...]
Published by Gandalf Hernandez
