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May 9, 2025

Incident Report: Spotify Outage on April 16, 2025

On April 16, Spotify experienced an outage that affected users worldwide. Here is what happened and what we...
Infrastructure
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Jun 22, 2023

Analyzing Volatile Memory on a Google Kubernetes Engine Node

TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across our entire organization in five regions...
Developer ToolsInfrastructurePlatform
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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...
PlatformProduct
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Feb 21, 2023

A Multi-Year Challenge: Repairing Deep Linking & Attribution at Spotify

Deep linking and attribution are important functionalities for a growing business. Deep links seamlessly get...
PeoplePlatformWeb
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Nov 8, 2022

Spotify’s Vulnerability Management Platform

We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify in Q2, 2020, and now that we’ve...
BackstageDeveloper ToolsInfrastructurePlatformSecurity
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Oct 25, 2022

Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE

TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to , we’ve made climate action one of our five technology pillars and have...
Developer ToolsInfrastructurePlatformProduct
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Sep 15, 2022

Scaling Translations at Spotify

Last year, we added support for 36 new languages to our products in one go, for a total of 62 languages. This...
InfrastructurePlatform
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Aug 23, 2022

How We Maintain Security Testing within the Software Development Life Cycle

TL;DR The (SDLC) has always been followed by functional testing to ensure software solutions have all the...
Developer ToolsSecurity
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Jul 5, 2022

What it Took to Scale Spotify’s Marketing Efforts

At Spotify, we’ve tried to uphold the tradition of running one major holiday marketing campaign at the end of...
DataInfrastructureWeb
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Jun 16, 2022

How We Built Infrastructure to Run User Forecasts at Spotify

TL;DR With Spotify’s rapid global expansion to more than 180 countries, it’s critical that the infrastructure...
Infrastructure
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May 12, 2022

Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents

This past year, a few of us who focus on the reliability of (S4A) spent some time taking a look at the...
Developer ToolsInfrastructurePeoplePlatform
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Apr 14, 2022

Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically

In 2017, we launched the , a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, stop, and...
Developer ToolsProduct
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