Across Spotify, our teams diligently strive to fulfill our mission to “unlock the potential of human creativity by giving millions [...]
Published by Maria Jernström and Jason Palmer
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures where humanity has become extinct and only one where humanity [...]
Published by Gary Niemen
Alia works as an Agile Coach Manager in our New York office. But right now, she’s 150km away – working from her house in the Hudson Valley and navigating a non-stop schedule of Hangout meetings.
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Backstage is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally for years, but only recently released the open source version. [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more [...]
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TL;DR Have you made a significant decision that impacts how engineers write software? Write an ADR! An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is [...]
Published by Josef Blake
Stefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the world – is working from home, [...]
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This week, we launched our podcasts API. This means that our new API is now open to third-party developers! Third-party apps can now connect to Spotify [...]
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Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via [...]
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Per is our Head of Patents and has worked at Spotify in Stockholm for almost three years. For him, the working day begins and ends with an invigorating commute by bike [...]
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On September 12, 2019 I spoke at Assert(JS) in Toronto to talk about my journey with test flakiness at Spotify and some [...]
Published by Jason Palmer
How do you cut iOS app build times by 50%? Patrick Balestra, an engineer at Spotify, explains how his team [...]
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At Spotify, we’re always trying to push the boundaries of the way the world experiences audio. In order to achieve [...]
Published by Bilawal Hameed
We recently surpassed the two year anniversary of our bug bounty program on the HackerOne platform. This gave us pause [...]
Published by Nathan Ferch
At Spotify, we love sharing code. We have many autonomous teams creating new stuff every day, and we need to [...]
Published by Paul Marbach
As a Security responder, it is important to have access to relevant information quickly in order to get a more [...]
Published by Carly Schneider, Fredrik Gustafsson
Introduction Large-scale data processing is a critical component of Spotify’s business model. It drives music recommendations, artist payouts based on [...]
Published by Claire McGinty
Localization at Spotify is a big deal. Our mission is to “unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art [...]
Published by Tryggvi Gylfason
Incident responders want to have as much information as possible to ease the investigation and triage process [...]
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The purpose of this post is to tell the story of the new Spotify web player. How and why it came to be. We will focus on what the steps were that led to a complete rewrite [...]
Published by José M. Pérez
At Spotify we are moving to managed infrastructure solutions to focus more on our core competencies [...]
Published by Emilio Del Tessandoro
At Spotify, we have a complex and diverse data processing ecosystem. Our backend infrastructure handles millions of requests per second, which are processed by over a thousand (micro)services [...]
Published by Bram Leenders
Today, we announce that we are open sourcing cstar, our Cassandra orchestration tool [...]
Published by Emilio Del Tessandoro, Jimmy Mårdell
Securing our Cloud infrastructure is incredibly important. We are now taking another step forward by leveraging open source tools we developed in [...]
Published by Gianluca Brindisi
