September 3, 2020
Listening Together, Miles Apart
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you [...]
Published by Gandalf HernandezOpen Source
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April 21, 2020How We Use Backstage at Spotify
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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April 1, 2020My Beat: Stefan Ålund
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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March 25, 2020Spotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch
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 [...]
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March 17, 2020What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via [...]
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February 18, 2020My Beat: Dave Zolotusky
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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October 16, 2019Techbytes: Data Processing with Scio
Neville Li shares Spotify’s history of data processing and our transition to Scio, an open-source Scala API for Apache Beam [...]
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October 1, 2019Solving documentation for monoliths and monorepos
At Spotify, we’re always trying to push the boundaries of the way the world experiences audio. In order to achieve [...]
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September 26, 2019Techbytes: TypeScript – from “Assess” to “Use”
Discover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript within Spotify’s highly distributed engineering community.
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July 3, 2019web-scripts – creating NPM libraries in a snap at Spotify
At Spotify, we love sharing code. We have many autonomous teams creating new stuff every day, and we need to [...]
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May 30, 2019Scio 0.7: a deep dive
Introduction Large-scale data processing is a critical component of Spotify’s business model. It drives music recommendations, artist payouts based on [...]
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April 4, 2019Automated Incident Response Infrastructure in GCP
Incident responders want to have as much information as possible to ease the investigation and triage process [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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November 15, 2018Introducing Chartify: Easier chart creation in Python for data scientists
Have you ever been frustrated with the complicated experience of making charts in Python? We have [...]
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September 4, 2018Introducing cstar: The Spotify Cassandra orchestration tool, now open source
Today, we announce that we are open sourcing cstar, our Cassandra orchestration tool [...]
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July 26, 2018Releasing Gimme: Managing time bound IAM conditions in Google Cloud Platform
We’re excited to release Gimme to the world. Gimme presents its users with a simple web interface that allows anyone with access to it to create [...]
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March 2, 2018Introducing Coördinator: A new open source project made at Spotify to inject some whimsy into data visualizations
Coördinator is an open source browser interface to help you turn an SVG into XY coordinates. That means you can now [...]
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October 23, 2017Big Data Processing at Spotify: The Road to Scio (Part 2)
In this part we’ll take a closer look at Scio, including basic concepts, its unique features, and concrete use cases here at Spotify [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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August 10, 2017Thinking of State in a World of URLs
Like most of the web community, Spotify has found the combination of React and Redux to be a super powerful tool. It has allowed us to iterate quickly
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May 31, 2017Going Into Deep Space – Creating the Right Environment for Your Open Space
A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to facilitate Open Spaces for three different [...]
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April 28, 2017Spydra – Ephemeral Hadoop Clusters Using Google Compute Platform
We are happy to announce a new open sourced project from Spotify called Spydra. Spydra makes it easy to run data [...]
Published by Hannu Varjoranta
