Spotify is a data informed company and in such a company Event Delivery is a key component. Every event containing [...]
Hear from Spotify’s Erin Palmer, as she illustrates the use of Scio with Big Data, discusses why it makes certain [...]
Introduction Large-scale data processing is a critical component of Spotify’s business model. It drives music recommendations, artist payouts based on [...]
Have you ever been frustrated with the complicated experience of making charts in Python? We have [...]
At Spotify, we have a complex and diverse data processing ecosystem. Our backend infrastructure handles millions of requests per second, which are processed by over a thousand (micro)services [...]
Today, we announce that we are open sourcing cstar, our Cassandra orchestration tool [...]
We flipped one server flag and got more download bandwidth for Spotify users. That is the TL;DR of this A/B experiment with BBR, a new TCP option [...]
Here at Spotify, we love playlists. Playlists like Today’s Top Hits and RapCaviar have millions of loyal followers, while Discover Weekly [...]
Coördinator is an open source browser interface to help you turn an SVG into XY coordinates. That means you can now [...]
This is part 4 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
Anyone who has ever done manual testing knows that it’s slow, boring and error-prone. By writing automated tests we are trying to remove — or at the very least improve — on these pain points [...]
This is part 2 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
Spotify’s Event Delivery system is responsible for delivering hundreds of billions of events every day. Most of the events are generated as a response [...]
In this part we’ll take a closer look at Scio, including basic concepts, its unique features, and concrete use cases here at Spotify [...]
Changing an engineering culture is one of the biggest challenges for any organization. It requires challenging an existing way of working, and introducing compelling improvements [...]
This is the first part of a 2 part blog series. In this series we will talk about Scio, a Scala API for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow, and [...]
Every day, Spotify users are generating more than 100 billion events. Every event is being generated as a response to [...]
Forward: This blog post accompanies our presentation given at SRECon 2017 in San Francisco. The recording of the talk can be viewed here, [...]
