September 26, 2019
Techbytes: TypeScript – from “Assess” to “Use”
Discover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript [...]
Published by John RodriguezInfrastructure
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September 4, 2019Techbytes: Scalable User Privacy – Crypto Shredding at Spotify
Engineer Bram Leenders, explains what crypto-shredding is, how Spotify uses [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
June 4, 2019Painting a Picture of Your Infrastructure in Minutes
As a Security responder, it is important to have access [...]
Published by Carly Schneider, Fredrik Gustafsson -
March 25, 2019Building Spotify’s New Web Player
The 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. Pérez -
December 18, 2018Bigtable Autoscaler: saving money and time using managed storage
At Spotify we are moving to managed infrastructure solutions to focus more on our core competencies [...]
Published by Emilio Del Tessandoro -
September 18, 2018Scalable User Privacy
At 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 Leenders -
August 31, 2018Smoother Streaming with BBR
We 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 Kakogianni -
February 5, 2018Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Continuous Delivery Engineer Donnie Thompson
This is part 5 in our new interview series called [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
January 11, 2018Testing of Microservices
Anyone who has ever done manual testing knows that it’s slow, boring and error-prone. By writing automated tests we are trying to remove — or at the very least improve — on these pain points [...]
Published by André Schaffer -
November 20, 2017Autoscaling Pub/Sub Consumers
Spotify’s Event Delivery system is responsible for delivering hundreds of billions of events every day. Most of the events are generated as a response [...]
Published by Igor Maravić -
October 16, 2017Big Data Processing at Spotify: The Road to Scio (Part 1)
This is the first part of a 2 part blog series. In this series we will talk about Scio, a Scala API for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow, and [...]
Published by Neville Li -
September 15, 2017Stepping Up the Cloud Security Game
Securing our Cloud infrastructure is incredibly important. We are now taking another step forward by leveraging open source tools we developed in [...]
Published by Gianluca Brindisi -
June 22, 2017Improving Critical Infrastructure Rollouts
Spotify began using Docker with a few prototype services in 2014. We upgraded and configured it many times since and have almost every time come across issues that were often hard to detect and fix.
Published by David Xia -
April 28, 2017Spydra – Ephemeral Hadoop Clusters Using Google Compute Platform
We are happy to announce a new open sourced project [...]
Published by Hannu Varjoranta -
April 26, 2017Reliable export of Cloud Pub/Sub streams to Cloud Storage
Every day, Spotify users are generating more than 100 billion [...]
Published by Igor Maravić -
March 31, 2017Spotify’s Love/Hate Relationship with DNS
Forward: This blog post accompanies our presentation given at SRECon 2017 in [...]
Published by Lynn Root -
August 7, 2016Commoditizing Music Machine Learning : Services
Five years ago, music personalization at Spotify was a tiny [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
March 25, 2016Managing Machines at Spotify
Introduction When you log into Spotify, browse through your Discover Weekly playlist, [...]
Published by Nic Cope -
March 10, 2016Spotify’s Event Delivery – The Road to the Cloud (Part III)
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such [...]
Published by Igor Maravić -
March 3, 2016Spotify’s Event Delivery – The Road to the Cloud (Part II)
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such [...]
Published by Igor Maravić -
February 25, 2016Spotify’s Event Delivery – The Road to the Cloud (Part I)
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such [...]
Published by Igor Maravić -
January 27, 2016SDN Internet Router – Part 2
Introduction In the previous post we talked about how the Internet finds [...]
Published by dbarrosop -
January 26, 2016SDN Internet Router – Part 1
Introduction This is the first part of a series of [...]
Published by dbarrosop -
December 9, 2015ELS: a latency-based load balancer, part 2
What to Measure? In part 1, we already mentioned a few [...]
Published by Lukáš Poláček
