Tag Archive: engineering leadership
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May 12, 2022Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents
This past year, a few of us who focus on [...]
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May 4, 2022Supporting Future Engineers: Spotify’s Partnership with The Marcy Lab School
In September 2020, we had the exciting opportunity to partner [...]
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April 22, 2022Announcing the Spotify FOSS Fund
TLDR: Spotify is starting a Free and Open Source Software [...]
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March 1, 2022Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving [...]
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October 5, 2021A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually [...]
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September 23, 2021How Backstage Made Our Developers More Effective — And How It Can Help Yours, Too
What’s the best way to assess your developers’ experience and [...]
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September 7, 2021Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
We’ve just open sourced Pedalboard, Spotify’s framework for adding effects [...]
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August 4, 2021Four Lessons We Learned from Creating Spotify’s Desktop App
TL;DR Over the years, Spotify’s brand has expanded to encompass [...]
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May 27, 2021Achieving Team Purpose and Pride with Scrum
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high [...]
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May 18, 2021A Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s Autonomous Culture
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “Spotify: A [...]
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May 11, 2021Spotify Wins CNCF’s Top End User Award and Toots Own Horn About It
Last week, Spotify won an award — and we’re not [...]
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March 23, 2021Why You Should Pair with Non-Engineers
TL;DR Spotify encourages engineers to become T-shaped and lean into [...]
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March 16, 2021Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast
TLDR: As Backstage turns one, we’re doubling down on our [...]
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September 29, 2020Managing Clouds from the Ground Up: Cost Engineering at Spotify
Like many of those in tech, we invest heavily in [...]
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September 24, 2020Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project
If you hear faint whooping in the background of your [...]
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September 15, 2020Lemonade from Lemons: Tiny Desk Conference
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference [...]
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August 27, 2020How We Improved Developer Productivity for Our DevOps Teams
Across Spotify, our teams diligently strive to fulfill our mission [...]
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August 17, 2020How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem
“His spice-induced visions show him a myriad of possible futures [...]
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May 18, 2020Alia Rose Connor: Agile Coach Manager
Alia works as an Agile Coach Manager in our New York office. But right now, she’s 150km away – working from her house in the Hudson Valley and navigating a non-stop schedule of Hangout meetings.
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April 21, 2020How We Use Backstage at Spotify
Backstage is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally [...]
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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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March 3, 2020Per Wendin: Head of Patents
Per is our Head of Patents and has worked at Spotify in Stockholm for almost three years. For him, the working day begins and ends with an invigorating commute by bike [...]
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February 26, 2020Techbytes: What The Industry Misses About Incidents and What You Can Do
Hear from John Allspaw – former CTO of Etsy and [...]
