Tag Archive: engineering leadership

March 25, 2025
An Insider’s Tips for Taking the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam

There’s a brand new engineering certification in town: Certified Backstage Associate (CBA). Offered through The Linux Foundation, the certification shows that you have the skills and knowledge to build and manage Backstage — the open framework for internal developer portals (IDPs) that was developed at Spotify and is now used at thousands of companies around the world. If you’re interested in building your engineering career — or just want to know more about what makes Backstage such a popular platform for developer experience — here’s everything I learned from taking the CBA exam.
November 25, 2024
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created [...]
April 30, 2024
Supercharged Developer Portals

Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source framework for building IDPs.
January 4, 2024
Q&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR Let’s cap the year by putting a spotlight on [...]
- Open Source
- People
November 14, 2023
The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size

Sometimes a shiny new feature brings more harm than good. The reason is simple — application size. Any addition to the application — be it code for a new feature, an image resource for a new button or even support for a new localization — contributes to the increase of the application’s size.
November 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 Spotify won their Top End User Award.
October 25, 2023
Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library

For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search [...]
October 23, 2023
Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the Spotify FOSS [...]
- Open Source
- People
October 5, 2023
Managing Software at Scale: Kelsey Hightower Talks with Niklas Gustavsson about Fleet

How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up [...]
- People
- Platform
August 3, 2023
Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify

TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software [...]
May 15, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 3): Fleet-wide Refactoring

This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management [...]
May 3, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 2): The Path to Declarative Infrastructure

This is part 2 in our series on Fleet Management [...]
April 27, 2023
Humans + Machines: A Look Behind the Playlists Powered by Spotify’s Algotorial Technology

TL;DR Since 2017, Spotify has been working to create a [...]
- Machine Learning
- Product
April 18, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 1): Spotify’s Shift to a Fleet-First Mindset

This is part 1 in our series on Fleet Management [...]
April 13, 2023
Large-Scale Generation of ML Podcast Previews at Spotify with Google Dataflow

Integrating the Podz ML pipeline into Spotify As of March [...]
- Infrastructure
- Machine Learning
January 18, 2023
Agile Coaching (AC) at Spotify: Shining a Light on the AC Career Framework

At Spotify, change is a constant, and our agile coaches [...]
- People
- Platform
- Product
December 15, 2022
Shipping Spotify’s Culture: 5 Plugins (and 4 Principles) for Supercharging Developer Experience at Scale

ICYMI Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today: the Spotify [...]
October 27, 2022
How We Improved the Development Experience for our Client Developers

TL;DR The core motivation for Spotify’s Client Platform (CliP) team [...]
October 25, 2022
Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE

TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero [...]
October 5, 2022
Open Source Work Is Work

Back in June, I presented the current state of Spotify’s [...]
- Open Source
September 29, 2022
Lessons Learned from Algorithmic Impact Assessments in Practice

TL;DR Understanding algorithmic impact is critical to building a platform [...]
- Data
- Machine Learning
- People
- Security
June 23, 2022
Q&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR We recently announced the 2022 recipients of the Spotify [...]
- Open Source
June 2, 2022
Say Hello to the Recipients of the 2022 Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR Today we’re announcing the recipients of the first Spotify [...]
- Open Source
June 1, 2022
Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter

Introducing Basic Pitch, Spotify’s free open source tool for converting [...]