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November 14, 2023
The 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, 2023
Exclude from Your Taste Profile

What is “Exclude from your taste profile”? Are you a parent forced to put the Bluey theme song on repeat? [...]
Published by Mark Koh, Senior ML Engineer
June 28, 2023
Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging

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
June 15, 2023
Experimenting at Scale, the Spotify Home Way

Introduction In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital role in enhancing user experiences. At Spotify, our Home [...]
Published by Nik Goyle, Product Manager
May 10, 2023
TV Spatial Navigation

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
April 27, 2023
Humans + Machines: A Look Behind the Playlists Powered by Spotify’s Algotorial Technology

TL;DR Since 2017, Spotify has been working to create a better listening experience for our users by creating algorithmically personalized [...]
Published by Christopher Barthle, Engineering Manager
January 18, 2023
Agile Coaching (AC) at Spotify: Shining a Light on the AC Career Framework

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
January 5, 2023
What’s a “Listening Personality”?

We did a couple of new things in Wrapped this year, and one of these is a thing called Your [...]
Published by glenn mcdonald, Data Alchemy
October 25, 2022
Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE

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
June 1, 2022
Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter

Introducing Basic Pitch, Spotify’s free open source tool for converting audio into MIDI. Basic Pitch uses machine learning to transcribe [...]
Published by Rachel Bittner, Sr. Research Scientist
April 28, 2022
Spotify Live: From Live to Recording

Spotify Live (formerly Spotify Greenroom) is a platform that democratizes live audio streams. Creators are able to create rooms and [...]
Published by Robert Segura, Senior Engineer
April 14, 2022
Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically

In 2017, we launched the Spotify Connect Web API, a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, [...]
Published by Josh Brown, Senior Developer Advocate
March 11, 2022
Incident Report: Spotify Outage on March 8, 2022

On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system used at Spotify. [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
March 1, 2022
Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers

TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving you a peek behind the curtain at Spotify R&D. Today, [...]
Published by Dave Zolotusky, Principal Engineer
December 17, 2021
The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical

TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express a user’s Audio Aura based on how they listened this [...]
Published by Zela Taino, Engineer
December 7, 2021
A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You

What does it take to go from an idea for a new playlist, to shipping that playlist to Spotify users [...]
Published by Jen Lamere, Senior Engineer
October 5, 2021
A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App

TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
September 7, 2021
Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python

We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it easy to use [...]
Published by Peter Sobot, Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Spotify Audio Intelligence Lab
August 4, 2021
Four Lessons We Learned from Creating Spotify’s Desktop App

TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass a number of products, from mobile apps to web players [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
March 3, 2020
Per 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 [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering
February 5, 2020
Ajay 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, 2017
Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Product Manager Sabrina Aronson

This is part 1 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
Published by Spotify Engineering

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