March 30, 2021
David Riordan: Product Manager
5:00 am My days begin with an early morning wake-up call from Zev – he comes through at around 5am and [...]
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March 23, 2021Why You Should Pair with Non-Engineers
TL;DR Spotify encourages engineers to become T-shaped and lean into technologies and skill sets outside of their core specialization. Being [...]
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March 1, 20212020 Unwrapped: The people behind the numbers
2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain [...]
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September 15, 2020Lemonade from Lemons: Tiny Desk Conference
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected [...]
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September 3, 2020Listening Together, Miles Apart
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you [...]
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August 17, 2020How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures where humanity has become extinct and only one where humanity [...]
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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.
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May 18, 2020Alia Rose Connor: Agile Coach Manager
Alia works as an Agile Coach Manager in our New York office. But right now, she’s 150km away – working from her house in the Hudson Valley and navigating a non-stop schedule of Hangout meetings.
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April 17, 2020Ann Clifton: Senior Research Scientist
Ann is a Senior Research Scientist and has worked in our New York office for just over a year. She spoke to us from her apartment in Fort Greene, which she shares with her husband and two rescue dogs, Birdie and Buttercup [...]
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April 14, 2020When Should I Write an Architecture Decision Record
TL;DR Have you made a significant decision that impacts how engineers write software? Write an ADR! An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is [...]
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April 1, 2020Stefan Ålund: Senior Product Manager
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 18, 2020Tony Jebara: VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning
Tony joined Spotify New York last summer as VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning. Here, he talks us through his busy working days and explains why he’s glad to be part of the band [...]
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March 3, 2020Per Wendin: Head of Patents
Per is our Head of Patents and has worked at Spotify in Stockholm for almost three years. For him, the working day begins and ends with an invigorating commute by bike [...]
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February 26, 2020Techbytes: What The Industry Misses About Incidents and What You Can Do
Hear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and one of the leading members of the DevOps movement – [...]
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February 18, 2020Dave Zolotusky: Senior Staff Engineer
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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February 6, 2020Techbytes: Hans Dockter discusses Developer Productivity Engineering
Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering [...]
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February 5, 2020Ajay Kalia: Group Product Manager
Ajay is a Group Product Manager on the Voice team and has worked in our Boston office ever since it was set up. Here, he talks us through a typical day and explains why he’s still so excited to be part of [...]
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January 18, 2020Anna Smith: Staff Engineer
Anna started at our New York office three years ago and has recently been promoted to Staff Engineer. She and her husband live in Brooklyn and met while working at Spotify – where they used to sit just [...]
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December 24, 2019Lynn Root: Staff Engineer
Lynn is one of our Staff Engineers and has just celebrated her six-year anniversary at Spotify. Starting out in our San Francisco office, she later moved to NYC and now lives in Manhattan with her cat, Glitch [...]
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December 16, 2019Techbytes: Behind the Scenes with the Creator of Advent Code
By Eric Wastl. Advent of code is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles that can be solved using any [...]
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November 18, 2019Techbytes: Machine Learning for Search at Slack
By Fiona Condon. Slack’s search makes the work history for collaborative teams discoverable and exploreable. Software engineer Fiona Condon explains [...]
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October 16, 2019Techbytes: Handling Big Data at Spotify
Hear from Spotify’s Erin Palmer, as she illustrates the use of Scio with Big Data, discusses why it makes certain [...]
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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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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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