April 21, 2020
How We Use Backstage at Spotify
Backstage is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally [...]
Tag Archive: backend
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April 1, 2020Stefan Ålund: Senior Product Manager
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, [...]
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March 25, 2020Spotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch
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 [...]
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March 17, 2020What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown [...]
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February 24, 2020How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience
A business with eyes on the future Spotify built its [...]
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February 18, 2020Dave Zolotusky: Senior Staff Engineer
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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December 13, 2019The Winding Road to Better Machine Learning Infrastructure Through Tensorflow Extended and Kubeflow
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 [...]
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December 9, 2019Views From The Cloud: A History of Spotify’s Journey to the Cloud, Part 1
Spotify’s Chief Architect, Niklas Gustavsson, was at the heart of [...]
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November 18, 2019Test Flakiness – Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests
On September 12, 2019 I spoke at Assert(JS) in Toronto to talk [...]
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November 12, 2019Spotify’s Event Delivery – Life in the Cloud
Spotify is a data informed company and in such a [...]
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October 23, 2019When in Rome: How Spotify halved build times with just one script
How do you cut iOS app build times by 50%? [...]
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October 1, 2019Solving documentation for monoliths and monorepos
At Spotify, we’re always trying to push the boundaries of [...]
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September 26, 2019Techbytes: TypeScript – from “Assess” to “Use”
Discover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript [...]
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June 4, 2019Painting a Picture of Your Infrastructure in Minutes
As a Security responder, it is important to have access [...]
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April 15, 2019(Right to Left (The Mirror World
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 [...]
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March 28, 2019Techbytes: Restoring Confidence in Microservices – Tracing That’s More Than Traces
Ben Sigelman, CEO of LightStep and co-author of the OpenTracing [...]
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December 18, 2018Bigtable Autoscaler: saving money and time using managed storage
At Spotify we are moving to managed infrastructure solutions to focus more on our core competencies [...]
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February 5, 2018Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Continuous Delivery Engineer Donnie Thompson
This is part 5 in our new interview series called [...]
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June 22, 2017Improving Critical Infrastructure Rollouts
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.
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April 28, 2017Spydra – Ephemeral Hadoop Clusters Using Google Compute Platform
We are happy to announce a new open sourced project [...]
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December 9, 2015ELS: a latency-based load balancer, part 2
What to Measure? In part 1, we already mentioned a few [...]
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December 8, 2015ELS: latency based load balancer, part 1
Load Balancing Most Spotify clients connect to our back-end via accesspoint which [...]
