Backstage is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally for years, but only recently released the open source version. [...]
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, [...]
This week, we launched our podcasts API. This means that our new API is now open to third-party developers! Third-party apps can now connect to Spotify [...]
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via [...]
A business with eyes on the future Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When Spotify launched in 2008 in Sweden, and in 2011 in the United States, people were amazed that they could access almost the world’s entire music catalog [...]
Spotify’s Chief Architect, Niklas Gustavsson, was at the heart of the company’s journey to migrate its data centers to the [...]
On September 12, 2019 I spoke at Assert(JS) in Toronto to talk about my journey with test flakiness at Spotify and some [...]
Spotify is a data informed company and in such a company Event Delivery is a key component. Every event containing [...]
How do you cut iOS app build times by 50%? Patrick Balestra, an engineer at Spotify, explains how his team [...]
At Spotify, we’re always trying to push the boundaries of the way the world experiences audio. In order to achieve [...]
Discover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript within Spotify’s highly distributed engineering community.
As a Security responder, it is important to have access to relevant information quickly in order to get a more [...]
Localization at Spotify is a big deal. Our mission is to “unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art [...]
Ben Sigelman, CEO of LightStep and co-author of the OpenTracing standard, stopped by our New York office to talk distributed [...]
At Spotify we are moving to managed infrastructure solutions to focus more on our core competencies [...]
This is part 5 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
Spotify began using Docker with a few prototype services in 2014. We upgraded and configured it many times since and have almost every time come across issues that were often hard to detect and fix.
We are happy to announce a new open sourced project from Spotify called Spydra. Spydra makes it easy to run data [...]
What to Measure? In part 1, we already mentioned a few metrics that should be considered by the load balancer. Success [...]
Load Balancing Most Spotify clients connect to our back-end via accesspoint which forwards client requests to other servers. In the picture below, the accesspoint has [...]
