March 16, 2021
Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our [...]
Published by Tyson SingerInfrastructure
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March 9, 2021Matt Clarke: Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer
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…
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March 1, 2021Designing a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers
TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t [...]
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February 11, 2021How Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped [...]
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September 24, 2020Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your [...]
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September 21, 2020Spotify Unwrapped 2019: How We Built an In-App Experience Just for You
As we prepare to launch 2020 Wrapped, we remind ourselves [...]
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August 27, 2020How We Improved Developer Productivity for Our DevOps Teams
Across Spotify, our teams diligently strive to fulfill our mission [...]
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August 17, 2020How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures [...]
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June 25, 2020Tech Migrations, the Spotify Way
Stuck in the long tail In our experience, big technology [...]
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May 28, 2020Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices
Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on [...]
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May 1, 2020How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification [...]
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April 1, 2020Stefan Ålund: Senior Product Manager
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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March 25, 2020Spotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch
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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March 17, 2020What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown [...]
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February 24, 2020How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience
A business with eyes on the future Spotify built its [...]
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February 18, 2020Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social [...]
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February 18, 2020Dave Zolotusky: Senior Staff Engineer
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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February 6, 2020Techbytes: Hans Dockter discusses Developer Productivity Engineering
Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, [...]
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December 24, 2019Lynn Root: Staff Engineer
Lynn is one of our Staff Engineers and has just celebrated her six-year anniversary at Spotify. Starting out in our San Francisco office, she later moved to NYC and now lives in Manhattan with her cat, Glitch [...]
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December 13, 2019The Winding Road to Better Machine Learning Infrastructure Through Tensorflow Extended and Kubeflow
When Spotify launched in 2008 in Sweden, and in 2011 in the United States, people were amazed that they could access almost the world’s entire music catalog [...]
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December 9, 2019Views From The Cloud: A History of Spotify’s Journey to the Cloud, Part 1
Spotify’s Chief Architect, Niklas Gustavsson, was at the heart of [...]
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November 12, 2019Spotify’s Event Delivery – Life in the Cloud
Spotify is a data informed company and in such a [...]
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October 23, 2019When in Rome: How Spotify halved build times with just one script
How do you cut iOS app build times by 50%? [...]
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October 1, 2019Solving documentation for monoliths and monorepos
At Spotify, we’re always trying to push the boundaries of [...]
Published by Bilawal Hameed
