July 10, 2024
Technical Decision-Making in a Fragmented Space: Spotify In-Car Case Study
Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with [...]
Published by Maheen Khalid, Senior EngineerProduct
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November 14, 2023The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
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) -
October 20, 2023Exclude from Your Taste Profile
What is “Exclude from your taste profile”? Are you a [...]
Published by Mark Koh, Senior ML Engineer -
June 28, 2023Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging
Messaging at Spotify At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate [...]
Published by Euan Dowers, Senior ML Engineer -
June 15, 2023Experimenting at Scale, the Spotify Home Way
In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital [...]
Published by Nik Goyle, Product Manager -
May 10, 2023TV Spatial Navigation
Very often, when developing user interfaces, a lot of focus [...]
Published by Sergio Avalos, Senior Engineer -
April 27, 2023Humans + Machines: A Look Behind the Playlists Powered by Spotify’s Algotorial Technology
TL;DR Since 2017, Spotify has been working to create a [...]
Published by Christopher Barthle, Engineering Manager -
January 18, 2023Agile Coaching (AC) at Spotify: Shining a Light on the AC Career Framework
At Spotify, change is a constant, and our agile coaches [...]
Published by Fiona Siseman, Alia Rose Connor, and Cara Lemon -
January 5, 2023What’s a “Listening Personality”?
We did a couple of new things in Wrapped this [...]
Published by glenn mcdonald, Data Alchemy -
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October 25, 2022Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE
TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero [...]
Published by Tyson Singer, Head of Technology and Platforms -
June 1, 2022Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter
Introducing Basic Pitch, Spotify’s free open source tool for converting [...]
Published by Rachel Bittner, Sr. Research Scientist -
April 28, 2022Spotify Live: From Live to Recording
Spotify Live (formerly Spotify Greenroom) is a platform that democratizes [...]
Published by Robert Segura, Senior Engineer -
April 14, 2022Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically
In 2017, we launched the Spotify Connect Web API, a [...]
Published by Josh Brown, Senior Developer Advocate -
March 11, 2022Incident Report: Spotify Outage on March 8, 2022
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
March 1, 2022Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer -
December 17, 2021The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical
TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express [...]
Published by Zela Taino, Engineer -
December 7, 2021A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You
What does it take to go from an idea for [...]
Published by Jen Lamere, Senior Engineer -
October 5, 2021A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
September 7, 2021Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects [...]
Published by Peter Sobot, Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Spotify Audio Intelligence Lab -
August 4, 2021Four Lessons We Learned from Creating Spotify’s Desktop App
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
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 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 [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering -
November 27, 2017Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Product Manager Sabrina Aronson
This is part 1 in our new interview series called [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
