Forward: This blog post accompanies our presentation given at SRECon 2017 in San Francisco. The recording of the talk can be viewed here, [...]
Published by Lynn Root
Five years ago, music personalization at Spotify was a tiny team. The team read papers, developed models, wrote data pipelines [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Introduction When you log into Spotify, browse through your Discover Weekly playlist, and play a track, you’re interacting with some of our [...]
Published by Nic Cope
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
Published by Igor Maravić
Introduction In the previous post we talked about how the Internet finds its way to reach content and users; how Internet relations [...]
Published by dbarrosop
Introduction This is the first part of a series of posts about a project we have been working with for [...]
Published by dbarrosop
What to Measure? In part 1, we already mentioned a few metrics that should be considered by the load balancer. Success [...]
Published by Lukáš Poláček
Load Balancing Most Spotify clients connect to our back-end via accesspoint which forwards client requests to other servers. In the picture below, the accesspoint has [...]
Published by Lukáš Poláček
This is the second part in a series about Monitoring at Spotify. In the previous post I discussed our history of operational [...]
Published by John-John Tedro
This is the first in a two-part series about Monitoring at Spotify. In this, I’ll be discussing our history, the [...]
Published by John-John Tedro
Story Lots of the UI of our iOS application is rendered through an internal framework called Ceramic. It’s a tool [...]
Published by Hector Zarate
Illustrations by Jonas Ekman Since the dawn of time, man has used 32-bit addressing. When the first Homo Erectus crawled [...]
Published by Per Knytt
In this blog post we focus on the web load balancers and various proxy systems across the Spotify perimeter. We [...]
Published by Alexey Lapitsky
In my spare time, I have developed a C++ framework for property based testing called RapidCheck. As my Hack Week project, I wanted [...]
Published by shadewind
Introduction All Spotify users are now stored in a Cassandra database instead of Postgres. The final switch was made on [...]
Published by Marcus Vesterlund
Sometimes the answer to a sluggish data pipeline isn’t more power in the Hadoop cluster, but a shift in technique. [...]
Published by Noel Cody
For my master’s thesis, I developed and benchmarked an Apache Cassandra compaction strategy optimized for time series. The result, the [...]
Published by Björn Hegerfors
All of our lovely Spotify users generate many terabytes of data every day. All the songs that are listened to, [...]
Published by davidawhiting
Spotify is a very frequent user of Puppet. We have given many talks and presentations on the subject but these [...]
Published by jhaals
A few weeks ago Spotify had one of the biggest incidents in the last few years. It caused a major [...]
Published by David Poblador i Garcia
We recently hosted the seventh sthlm.js meetup at our office and Paul Lewis of Google Chrome, Robert Nyman of Mozilla and our [...]
Published by Gabriel Bonander
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
