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
Like most of the web community, Spotify has found the combination of React and Redux to be a super powerful tool. It has allowed us to iterate quickly
Published by Josh Blaney
Five years ago, music personalization at Spotify was a tiny team. The team read papers, developed models, wrote data pipelines [...]
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Dependency Hell Most Java developers have probably run into problems where their code throws a NoSuchMethodError or a NoClassDefFoundError at [...]
Published by Petter Måhlén
A few of us at Spotify are infatuated with RAML – a RESTful API Modeling Language described as “a simple and succinct [...]
Published by Lynn Root
Git is an incredible tool, but it isn’t magical and it doesn’t think for you. When actually doing distributed version [...]
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Six months ago, when we launched our Web API, we provided twelve endpoints through which developers could retrieve Spotify catalog [...]
Published by Chris Hughes
All of our lovely Spotify users generate many terabytes of data every day. All the songs that are listened to, [...]
Published by davidawhitingFor the impatient If you don’t want/don’t have time to read the full story, you should at least consider using the [...]
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