April 17, 2025
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Release the Spotify App (Part 1)
Developing and releasing mobile apps at scale is a big [...]
Published by Jacob Vesterlund, Senior EngineerMobile
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November 14, 2023The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
Sometimes a shiny new feature brings more harm than good. The reason is simple — application size. Any addition to the application — be it code for a new feature, an image resource for a new button or even support for a new localization — contributes to the increase of the application’s size.
Published by Viktor Petrovski (Android Engineer), Dmitry Povolotskyi (Senior iOS Engineer), and Bruno Rocha (Senior iOS Engineer) -
November 15, 2022Strategies and Tools for Performing Migrations on Platform
Needing to deliver faster and more reliably while managing a [...]
Published by Mariana Ardoino (Staff Engineer) and Raul Herbster (Engineering Manager) -
March 18, 2022Zela Taino: iOS Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… As Tech [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
March 1, 2022Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer -
February 22, 2022Mesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… I specialize [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
February 16, 2022Fred Wang: Senior Backend Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… I’m part [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
February 14, 2022Introducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size
At Spotify, we strive to make our apps available to [...]
Published by Simon Schiller, Android Engineer -
November 16, 2021Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%
At Spotify, we constantly work on creating the best developer [...]
Published by Bartosz Polaczyk, Senior Engineer -
June 4, 2021Patrick Balestra: Senior Engineer
8:30am I’m at my best after nine hours’ sleep, so [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
January 20, 2021Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics
TL;DR We just open sourced XCMetrics — a tool for [...]
Published by Patrick Balestra, Sr. Engineer -
December 3, 2020How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later
What if, for some users, the very best Spotify is [...]
Published by Erik Ghonyan (Senior Engineer), Slava Savitskiy (Senior Engineer), and Tommy Tynjä (Engineering Manager) -
July 24, 2020Erick Camacho: iOS Engineer
Erick joined our Stockholm office as an iOS Engineer more than 18 months ago. But right now, he’s working from home and missing the camaraderie of his close-knit team.
Published by Spotify Engineering -
May 28, 2020Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices
Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
May 1, 2020How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
November 5, 2015Oh IPv6, Where Art Thou
Illustrations by Jonas Ekman Since the dawn of time, man [...]
Published by Per Knytt -
November 4, 2013
Shaving off 50% waiting time from the iOS Edit-Build-Test cycle
For the impatient If you don’t want/don’t have time to [...]
Published by Alfonso Acosta
