2020 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 [...]
Published by Javier Moscardó (Mosca)2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And we’re grateful for the people and teams behind the curtain [...]
Published by Javier Moscardó (Mosca)In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected [...]
Published by Erin DepewEvery second more than 30,000 people around the world press play on the same song on Spotify. Imagine if you [...]
Published by Gandalf Hernandez“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures where humanity has become extinct and only one where humanity [...]
Published by Gary NiemenErick 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 EngineeringAlia 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.
Published by Spotify EngineeringAnn 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 [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringTL;DR Have you made a significant decision that impacts how engineers write software? Write an ADR! An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is [...]
Published by Josef BlakeStefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the world – is working from home, [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringTony 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 [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringPer 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 [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringHear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and one of the leading members of the DevOps movement – [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringDave 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 [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringTune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringAjay 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 [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringAnna 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 [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringLynn 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 [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringBy Eric Wastl. Advent of code is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles that can be solved using any [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringBy Fiona Condon. Slack’s search makes the work history for collaborative teams discoverable and exploreable. Software engineer Fiona Condon explains [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringHear from Spotify’s Erin Palmer, as she illustrates the use of Scio with Big Data, discusses why it makes certain [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringNeville Li shares Spotify’s history of data processing and our transition to Scio, an open-source Scala API for Apache Beam [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringDiscover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript within Spotify’s highly distributed engineering community.
Published by John RodriguezEngineer Bram Leenders, explains what crypto-shredding is, how Spotify uses it to respect users’ privacy — and how Padlock, our [...]
Published by Spotify EngineeringIt is no surprise that the tech industry lags behind on diversity standards and metrics, particularly in the field of [...]
Published by Mira Scarvalone, Belhorma Bendebiche