Tag archive: Engineering Culture

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May 1, 2026

Building a Natural Language Interface to the Spotify Ads API with Claude Code Plugins

Turning OpenAPI spec and Markdown files into a conversational ads management tool — no compiled code required.
Developer ToolsDeveloper Experience
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Apr 22, 2026

Background Coding Agents: Supercharging Downstream Consumer Dataset Migrations (Honk, Part 4)

How we used Honk, Backstage, and Fleet Management to ease the pain of migrating thousands of datasets.
PlatformDataDeveloper Tools
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Apr 6, 2026

Let’s Talk Agentic Development: Spotify x Anthropic Live

AI agents are transforming the way we build — and even how we think of ourselves as software developers. Both...
Developer ExperienceDeveloper ToolsInfrastructure
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Mar 12, 2026

Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights

What if we could identify interesting listening moments from your year, and tell you a story about them?
DataDeveloper Tools
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Feb 19, 2026

Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising

When we kicked this off, we weren’t trying to ship an “AI feature.” We were trying to fix a structural...
Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsDeveloper Experience
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Jan 22, 2026

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR Established in 2022 as a way to help support the great open source ecosystem projects that Spotify...
Developer ToolsOpen SourcePeople
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Jan 7, 2026

Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation

The technical and practical rationale for a clear separation between these domains.
Developer ExperiencePlatformMachine LearningData ScienceData
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Dec 9, 2025

Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Honk, Part 3)

The system we built to ensure our AI agents produce predictable, trustworthy code.
Developer ExperiencePlatformDeveloper Tools
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Nov 24, 2025

Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Honk, Part 2)

We explore context engineering for background coding agents and what makes a good migration prompt.
Developer ExperiencePlatformDeveloper ToolsInfrastructure
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Nov 6, 2025

1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding Agent (Honk, Part 1)

Thousands of merged AI-generated pull requests and the future of large-scale software maintenance.
Developer ExperiencePlatformDeveloper ToolsInfrastructure
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Apr 23, 2025

Celebrating Five Years of Backstage: From Open Source Project to Enterprise Business

Did you know that we sell Spotify’s developer productivity tools and support to other companies, from online...
BackstageDeveloper ExperienceDeveloper ToolsOpen SourcePlatform
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Apr 17, 2025

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Release the Spotify App (Part 1)

Developing and releasing mobile apps at scale is a big challenge. With each weekly release of our mobile app...
Developer ExperienceDeveloper ToolsMobile