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
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
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
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
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
In Part I of this two-part series, we talked about the challenges we faced with the models we use to [...]
Published by Annie Edmundson, Engineer
At Spotify, we constantly work on creating the best developer experience possible for our iOS engineers. Improving build times is [...]
Published by Bartosz Polaczyk, Senior Engineer
At Spotify, our goal is to connect listeners with creators, and one way we do that is by recommending quality [...]
Published by Annie Edmundson, Engineer
At Spotify, data rules all. We log a variety of data, from listening history, to results of A/B testing, to [...]
Published by Flavio Santos (Data Infrastructure Engineer) and Robert Stephenson (Senior Product Manager)
What’s the best way to assess your developers’ experience and performance to discover what they need help with? Is it [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it easy to use [...]
Published by Peter Sobot, Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Spotify Audio Intelligence Lab
8:30am I’m at my best after nine hours’ sleep, so I tend to wake up pretty late, shower and dress as [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high marks, but it was a long journey to get there [...]
Published by Sophia Ciocca, Web Engineer
Last week, Spotify won an award — and we’re not playing it cool. We tweeted. We bragged on LinkedIn. Our [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer & CNCF Technical Oversight Committee Representative
When a design system first starts out, the promise of visual consistency glows bright — the ideal product would have [...]
Published by Charlie Eshleman
Search @ Spotify Search is a well-established functionality across different industries, devices, and applications. When users come to any kind [...]
Published by Hugo Galvão and Daniel Doro
For the past couple of years, we’ve been on a mission to modernize our Spotify clients by creating one single [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the open source project and the community we’re [...]
Published by Tyson Singer
TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t have to use all of your cluster management skills just [...]
Published by Matthew Clarke, Senior Engineer
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, Wrapped 2019, for [...]
Published by Neville Li, Claire McGinty, Sahith Nallapareddy, & Joel Östlund
TL;DR We just open sourced XCMetrics — a tool for Apple’s developer software, Xcode, that lets you collect, display, and [...]
Published by Patrick Balestra, Sr. Engineer
Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in our cloud and data infrastructure. While seemingly routine, the ability [...]
Published by Janisa Anandamohan
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your playlists today, it’s just us celebrating a new milestone for [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you [...]
Published by Gandalf Hernandez
