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 [...]
Published by Anna Granhed (Product Manager) and Nandini Singh (Senior Data Scientist)](https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/10/spotify-climate-engineering.png)
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
Matt is a Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer and has been at Spotify for two-and-a-half years. This time last year, he was living and working in London – but that’s all changed since the start of the pandemic…
Published by Spotify Engineering
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
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
As we prepare to launch 2020 Wrapped, we remind ourselves of the challenges we took on and lessons learned to [...]
Published by Javier Moscardó Marichalar (Mosca)
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
