In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected [...]
Published by Erin Depew
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
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures where humanity has become extinct and only one where humanity [...]
Published by Gary Niemen
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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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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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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TL;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 Blake
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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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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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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Hear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and one of the leading members of the DevOps movement – [...]
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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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Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering [...]
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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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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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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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By Eric Wastl. Advent of code is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles that can be solved using any [...]
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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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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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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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Discover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript within Spotify’s highly distributed engineering community.
Published by John Rodriguez
Engineer Bram Leenders, explains what crypto-shredding is, how Spotify uses it to respect users’ privacy — and how Padlock, our [...]
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It 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
Registers! Oscilloscopes! Beards! Serial Ports! C! Cycle shaving! Beards! Interrupts! Assembly! Did I mention beards? [...]
Published by Per Knytt
