May 12, 2022
Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents
This past year, a few of us who focus on the reliability of Spotify for Artists (S4A) spent some time [...]
Tag Archive: engineering leadership
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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 with The Marcy Lab School with the hopes of creating [...]
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April 22, 2022Announcing the Spotify FOSS Fund
TLDR: Spotify is starting a Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund) to pay maintainers of independent projects. This [...]
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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 you a peek behind the curtain at Spotify R&D. Today, [...]
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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 having to sync your computer’s playlists with your iPod every [...]
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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 performance to discover what they need help with? Is it [...]
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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 to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it easy to use [...]
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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 a number of products, from mobile apps to web players [...]
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May 27, 2021Achieving Team Purpose and Pride with Scrum
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high marks, but it was a long journey to get there [...]
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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 Product Story”, we share stories and lessons from building and [...]
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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 playing it cool. We tweeted. We bragged on LinkedIn. Our [...]
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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 technologies and skill sets outside of their core specialization. Being [...]
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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 commitment to the open source project and the community we’re [...]
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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 our cloud and data infrastructure. While seemingly routine, the ability [...]
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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 playlists today, it’s just us celebrating a new milestone for [...]
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September 15, 2020Lemonade from Lemons: Tiny Desk Conference
In 2019, we began planning for Spotify’s second engineering conference set to take place in April 2020. It was expected [...]
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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 to “unlock the potential of human creativity by giving millions [...]
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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 where humanity has become extinct and only one where humanity [...]
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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 for years, but only recently released the open source version. [...]
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March 17, 2020What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or two via [...]
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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 one of the leading members of the DevOps movement – [...]
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February 18, 2020Dave Zolotusky: Senior Staff Engineer
Dave moved to Stockholm three years ago and works for Spotify as a Senior Staff Engineer. He and his wife are now happily settled into Swedish life – and his two young children [...]
