Tag archive: engineering leadership
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...
Mar 25, 2025
An Insider’s Tips for Taking the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam
TL;DR There’s a brand new engineering certification in town: Certified Backstage Associate (CBA). Offered...
Nov 25, 2024
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help support the open...
Apr 30, 2024
Supercharged Developer Portals
Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source...
Jan 4, 2024
Q&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR Let’s cap the year by putting a spotlight on some of the valuable work people outside of Spotify are...
Nov 14, 2023
The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
Our daily tasks as engineers often involve implementing new functionalities. Existing users get to enjoy the...
Nov 8, 2023
Spotify Wins CNCF Top End User Award for the Second Time!
This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that...
Oct 25, 2023
Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library
For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our...
Oct 23, 2023
Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the to help support the free and open source software projects we use...
Oct 5, 2023
Managing Software at Scale: Kelsey Hightower Talks with Niklas Gustavsson about Fleet
How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up of 500+ squads managing over 10,000 software...
Aug 3, 2023
Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify
TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our...
May 15, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 3): Fleet-wide Refactoring
This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. See also...