At Spotify, we have experimented with the Bazel build system since 2017. Over the years, the project has matured, and [...]
Published by Patrick Balestra, Staff Engineer
TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across our entire organization in five regions where our main production [...]
Published by Marcus Hallberg, Security Engineer
This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. [...]
Published by Matt Brown, Staff Engineer
This is part 2 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. [...]
Published by David Flemström, Principal Product Manager, and Alexander Buck, Senior Engineer
This is part 1 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. [...]
Published by Niklas Gustavsson, VP, Engineering
Integrating the Podz ML pipeline into Spotify As of March 8, 2023, Spotify has started serving short previews for music, [...]
Published by Diego Casabuena (ML Engineer, Spotify), Edgar Tanaka (ML Engineer, Spotify), Winstead Zhu (ML Engineer, Spotify), Reza Rokni (PM, Google Dataflow ML), and Danny McCormick (Senior Software Engineer, Google)
Wrapped is Spotify’s global annual year-end campaign that celebrates our listeners with a personalized review of their listening habits over [...]
Published by Fred Wang, Senior Backend Engineer
On January 14, between 00:15 UTC and 03:45 UTC, Spotify suffered an outage. The impact was small at first and [...]
Published by Erik Lindblad, Staff Engineer
Introduction As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and its impact on society and various aspects of [...]
Published by Divita Vohra, Sr. Product Manager, Keshi Dai, Sr. ML Engineer, David Xia, Sr. ML Engineer, & Praveen Ravichandran, Staff Research Scientist
Needing to deliver faster and more reliably while managing a growing number of contributors and a more complex codebase seems [...]
Published by Mariana Ardoino (Staff Engineer) and Raul Herbster (Engineering Manager)
We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify in Q2, 2020, and now that we’ve implemented it and [...]
Published by Yukio Mizuta (Sr. Backend Engineer) and Nurit Izrailov (Software Engineer)
TL;DR The core motivation for Spotify’s Client Platform (CliP) team is empowering and unblocking client developers and giving teams the [...]
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TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero emissions by 2030, we’ve made climate action one of our [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms
Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders [...]
Published by Vinicius Teixeira Dallacqua, Engineer
Last year, we added support for 36 new languages to our products in one go, for a total of 62 [...]
Published by Tommy Tynjä (Senior Engineering Manager and Project Engineering Lead) and Martiño Prada Díaz (Director, Localization)
At Spotify, we’ve tried to uphold the tradition of running one major holiday marketing campaign at the end of each [...]
Published by James La Broy, Senior Engineer
TL;DR With Spotify’s rapid global expansion to more than 180 countries, it’s critical that the infrastructure of user forecasts catch [...]
Published by Molly Zhu, Insights Manager
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
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
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)
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “Spotify: A Product Story”, we share stories and lessons from building and [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
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
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
