As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow professionals who are contemplating [...]
Published by Anastasia Khlebnikova (Senior Engineer) and Carol Cunha (Product Manager)
TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, Schultzberg, Ankargren, and Frånberg (2024), where we explain how Spotify’s decision-making [...]
Published by Mårten Schultzberg (Sr. Manager, Staff Data Scientist), Sebastian Ankargren (Sr. Data Scientist), and Mattias Frånberg (Sr. Data Scientist)
Sometimes a shiny new feature brings more harm than good. The reason is simple — application size. Any addition to the application — be it code for a new feature, an image resource for a new button or even support for a new localization — contributes to the increase of the application’s size.
Published by Viktor Petrovski (Android Engineer), Dmitry Povolotskyi (Senior iOS Engineer), and Bruno Rocha (Senior iOS Engineer)
This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that Spotify won their Top End User Award.
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer & CNCF Technical Oversight Committee Representative
Spotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms. Being efficient with our marketing budget is critical for maximizing the return on ad spend.
Published by Bryan Maloney (Senior Engineering Manager), Christopher Tang, (Senior ML Engineer), Deepak Bhat (Senior Data Engineer), and Ryan Kim (Senior Product Manager)](https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2023/10/EN205_Kelsey_ngn_1200x590.png)
How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up of 500+ squads managing over 10,000 software components in production? [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our homegrown experimentation platform that [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms
In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the within-unit peeking problem that we call the “peeking problem 2.0”. We [...]
Published by Sebastian Ankargren (Sr. Data Scientist), Mattias Frånberg (Sr. Data Scientist), and Mårten Schultzberg (Sr. Manager/Staff Data Scientist)
Spotify’s approach to challenges in sequential testing with longitudinal data At Spotify, we’re constantly improving our data infrastructure, which means [...]
Published by Sebastian Ankargren (Sr. Data Scientist), Mattias Frånberg (Sr. Data Scientist), and Mårten Schultzberg (Sr. Manager/Staff Data Scientist)
Messaging at Spotify At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate with our listeners all over the world. Our Messaging team [...]
Published by Euan Dowers, Senior ML Engineer
TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across our entire organization in five regions where our main production [...]
Published by Marcus Hallberg, Security Engineer
This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. [...]
Published by Matt Brown, Staff Engineer
Very often, when developing user interfaces, a lot of focus is given to the visuals, as that’s what primarily gets [...]
Published by Sergio Avalos, Senior Engineer
This is part 2 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. [...]
Published by David Flemström, Principal Product Manager, and Alexander Buck, Senior Engineer
This is part 1 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. [...]
Published by Niklas Gustavsson, VP, Engineering
Wrapped is Spotify’s global annual year-end campaign that celebrates our listeners with a personalized review of their listening habits over [...]
Published by Fred Wang, Senior Backend Engineer
On the Encore team (Spotify’s design system), there’s nothing we love more than collaborating with our fellow squads — (1) [...]
Published by Arielle Benedek (Product Manager), Rose Marantz (Web Engineer), and Tamas Geczy (Web Engineer)
Deep linking and attribution are important functionalities for a growing business. Deep links seamlessly get you to the content you [...]
Published by Erik Dornbush, Sr. Systems Engineer
As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and its impact on society and various aspects of our [...]
Published by Divita Vohra, Sr. Product Manager, Keshi Dai, Sr. ML Engineer, David Xia, Sr. ML Engineer, & Praveen Ravichandran, Staff Research Scientist
At Spotify, change is a constant, and our agile coaches are here to help teams and leaders thrive as we [...]
Published by Fiona Siseman, Alia Rose Connor, and Cara Lemon
We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify in Q2, 2020, and now that we’ve implemented it and [...]
Published by Yukio Mizuta (Sr. Backend Engineer) and Nurit Izrailov (Software Engineer)
TL;DR The core motivation for Spotify’s Client Platform (CliP) team is empowering and unblocking client developers and giving teams the [...]
Published by Anna Granhed (Product Manager) and Nandini Singh (Senior Data Scientist)](https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/10/spotify-climate-engineering.png)
TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero emissions by 2030, we’ve made climate action one of our [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms
Last year, we added support for 36 new languages to our products in one go, for a total of 62 [...]
Published by Tommy Tynjä (Senior Engineering Manager and Project Engineering Lead) and Martiño Prada Díaz (Director, Localization)
