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
Stuck in the long tail In our experience, big technology upgrade efforts or migrations (as we fondly call them at [...]
Published by Saunak “Jai” Chakrabarti and Jenni Lee
Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on Liked Songs enabled his team to address a much deeper [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up to 75%. Who [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
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, [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
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 [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
A business with eyes on the future Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see [...]
Published by Bindia Kalra, Catie Edwards, Zoe Tiet
Dave moved to Stockholm three years ago and works for Spotify as a Senior Staff Engineer. He and his wife are now happily settled into Swedish life – and his two young children [...]
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