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…
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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 [...]
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Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up to 75%. Who [...]
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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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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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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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A business with eyes on the future Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up [...]
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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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Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering [...]
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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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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 [...]
Published by Josh Baer, Samuel Ngahane
Spotify’s Chief Architect, Niklas Gustavsson, was at the heart of the company’s journey to migrate its data centers to the [...]
Published by Niklas Gustavsson
Spotify is a data informed company and in such a company Event Delivery is a key component. Every event containing [...]
Published by Bartosz Janota, Robert Stephenson
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
