ICYMI Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today: the Spotify Plugins for Backstage bundle subscription. Some of these commercial plugins [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms
Back in June, I presented the current state of Spotify’s open source activities to our developers as part of our [...]
Published by Per Ploug, Open Source Tech Lead
TL;DR We recently announced the 2022 recipients of the Spotify FOSS Fund, which we created to help support the open [...]
Published by Per Ploug, Open Source Tech Lead
TL;DR Today we’re announcing the recipients of the first Spotify FOSS Fund. The objective of this fund is to give [...]
Published by Per Ploug, Open Source Tech Lead
Introducing Basic Pitch, Spotify’s free open source tool for converting audio into MIDI. Basic Pitch uses machine learning to transcribe [...]
Published by Rachel Bittner, Sr. Research Scientist
TL;DR What is the future of open source going to look like? At Spotify, we think it’s important to play [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms
TLDR: Spotify is starting a Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund) to pay maintainers of independent projects. This [...]
Published by Per Ploug, Open Source Tech Lead
TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined in 1,000+ repositories, owned by 300+ teams — daily. The [...]
Published by Guillaume Perchais, Sr. Product Manager
At Spotify, we strive to make our apps available to as many people as possible. As mobile developers, that means [...]
Published by Simon Schiller, Android Engineer
At Spotify, we constantly work on creating the best developer experience possible for our iOS engineers. Improving build times is [...]
Published by Bartosz Polaczyk, Senior Engineer
We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it easy to use [...]
Published by Peter Sobot, Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Spotify Audio Intelligence Lab
8:30am I’m at my best after nine hours’ sleep, so I tend to wake up pretty late, shower and dress as [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “Spotify: A Product Story”, we share stories and lessons from building and [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the open source project and the community we’re [...]
Published by Tyson Singer
TL;DR We just open sourced XCMetrics — a tool for Apple’s developer software, Xcode, that lets you collect, display, and [...]
Published by Patrick Balestra, Sr. Engineer
TL;DR We just open sourced Klio — our framework for building smarter data pipelines for audio and other media processing. [...]
Published by David Riordan and Lynn Root
Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in our cloud and data infrastructure. While seemingly routine, the ability [...]
Published by Janisa Anandamohan
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your playlists today, it’s just us celebrating a new milestone for [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you [...]
Published by Gandalf Hernandez
Backstage is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally for years, but only recently released the open source version. [...]
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Stefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the world – is working from home, [...]
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This 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 Engineering
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
Dave 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 [...]
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