Tech Migrations, the Spotify Way
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 LeeStuck 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 LeeEngineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on Liked Songs enabled his team to address a much deeper [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringDiscover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up to 75%. Who [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringStefan 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 EngineeringThis 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 EngineeringYesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringA business with eyes on the future Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringThe 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 TietDave 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 [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringTune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringLynn 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 [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringWhen 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 NgahaneSpotify’s Chief Architect, Niklas Gustavsson, was at the heart of the company’s journey to migrate its data centers to the [...]
Published by Niklas GustavssonSpotify is a data informed company and in such a company Event Delivery is a key component. Every event containing [...]
Published by Bartosz Janota, Robert StephensonHow do you cut iOS app build times by 50%? Patrick Balestra, an engineer at Spotify, explains how his team [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringAt Spotify, we’re always trying to push the boundaries of the way the world experiences audio. In order to achieve [...]
Published by Bilawal HameedDiscover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript within Spotify’s highly distributed engineering community.
Published by John RodriguezEngineer Bram Leenders, explains what crypto-shredding is, how Spotify uses it to respect users’ privacy — and how Padlock, our [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringAs a Security responder, it is important to have access to relevant information quickly in order to get a more [...]
Published by Carly Schneider, Fredrik GustafssonThe purpose of this post is to tell the story of the new Spotify web player. How and why it came to be. We will focus on what the steps were that led to a complete rewrite [...]
Published by José M. PérezAt Spotify we are moving to managed infrastructure solutions to focus more on our core competencies [...]
Published by Emilio Del TessandoroAt Spotify, we have a complex and diverse data processing ecosystem. Our backend infrastructure handles millions of requests per second, which are processed by over a thousand (micro)services [...]
Published by Bram LeendersWe flipped one server flag and got more download bandwidth for Spotify users. That is the TL;DR of this A/B experiment with BBR, a new TCP option [...]
Published by Erik Carlsson, Eirini KakogianniThis is part 5 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
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