November 5, 2015
Oh IPv6, Where Art Thou
Illustrations by Jonas Ekman Since the dawn of time, man has used 32-bit addressing. When the first Homo Erectus crawled [...]
Published by Per KnyttInfrastructure
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October 9, 2015Designing the Spotify perimeter
In this blog post we focus on the web load balancers and various proxy systems across the Spotify perimeter. We [...]
Published by Alexey Lapitsky -
June 25, 2015Generating test cases so you don’t have to
In my spare time, I have developed a C++ framework for property based testing called RapidCheck. As my Hack Week project, I wanted [...]
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June 23, 2015Switching user database on a running system
Introduction All Spotify users are now stored in a Cassandra database instead of Postgres. The final switch was made on [...]
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December 19, 2014Solving MapReduce Performance Problems With Sharded Joins
Sometimes the answer to a sluggish data pipeline isn’t more power in the Hadoop cluster, but a shift in technique. [...]
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December 18, 2014Date-Tiered Compaction in Apache Cassandra
For my master’s thesis, I developed and benchmarked an Apache Cassandra compaction strategy optimized for time series. The result, the [...]
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November 27, 2014Data Processing with Apache Crunch at Spotify
All of our lovely Spotify users generate many terabytes of data every day. All the songs that are listened to, [...]
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July 4, 2013Puppetizing the workstations
Spotify is a very frequent user of Puppet. We have given many talks and presentations on the subject but these [...]
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June 4, 2013Incident Management at Spotify
A few weeks ago Spotify had one of the biggest incidents in the last few years. It caused a major [...]
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April 11, 2013sthlm.js #7 @ Spotify
We recently hosted the seventh sthlm.js meetup at our office and Paul Lewis of Google Chrome, Robert Nyman of Mozilla and our [...]
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March 20, 2013How we use Python at Spotify
The most frequent question we heard at PyCon this weekend, was how do we use Python at Spotify. Hopefully this post answers [...]
Published by Geoff van der Meer -
March 15, 2013Backend infrastructure at Spotify
backend infrastructure at Spotify. Our backend infrastructure is very much work in progress – in some areas we have come [...]
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March 6, 2013Achieving fault-tolerance with intelligent daemons
Powering the Spotify service is a backend of dozens of different, specialized service implementations. For example, we have a playlist system that [...]
Published by Björn Edström -
February 25, 2013In praise of “boring” technology
In this article I will explain how Spotify uses different mature and proven technologies in our backend service eco-system and [...]
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January 28, 2013Rock the night
It was the middle of the night, 10th of May 2011, and were at step twentysomething of the rollout plan, [...]
Published by Björn Edström -
January 28, 2013Finding the right needle in the kernel haystack
Spotify makes a significant investment in writing code to automate the provisioning of servers in our data centers. Our goal is [...]
Published by Noa Resare
