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Encouragement Designs and Instrumental Variables for A/B Testing

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Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation

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Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify

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Bringing Sequential Testing to Experiments with Longitudinal Data (Part 2): Sequential Testing

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Bringing Sequential Testing to Experiments with Longitudinal Data (Part 1): The Peeking Problem 2.0

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Analyzing Volatile Memory on a Google Kubernetes Engine Node

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Experimenting at Scale, the Spotify Home Way

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Multiple Layers of Abstraction in Design Systems

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Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 3): Fleet-wide Refactoring

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TV Spatial Navigation

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Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 2): The Path to Declarative Infrastructure

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Humans + Machines: A Look Behind the Playlists Powered by Spotify’s Algotorial Technology

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Load Testing for 2022 Wrapped

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Choosing Sequential Testing Framework — Comparisons and Discussions

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Encore x Accessibility: A Balancing Act

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Getting More from Your Team Health Checks

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A Multi-Year Challenge: Repairing Deep Linking & Attribution at Spotify

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Incident Report: Spotify Outage on January 14, 2023

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Unleashing ML Innovation at Spotify with Ray

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Agile Coaching (AC) at Spotify: Shining a Light on the AC Career Framework

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What’s a “Listening Personality”?

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Shipping Spotify’s Culture: 5 Plugins (and 4 Principles) for Supercharging Developer Experience at Scale

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Strategies and Tools for Performing Migrations on Platform

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Spotify’s Vulnerability Management Platform

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How We Improved the Development Experience for our Client Developers

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Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE

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Open Source Work Is Work

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Lessons Learned from Algorithmic Impact Assessments in Practice

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From Development to Real Users: How to Create a Web Performance Story

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Scaling Translations at Spotify

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How We Maintain Security Testing within the Software Development Life Cycle

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Software Visualization — Challenge, Accepted

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How We Built Infrastructure to Run User Forecasts at Spotify

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Say Hello to the Recipients of the 2022 Spotify FOSS Fund

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Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter

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The Open Future

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Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents

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Supporting Future Engineers: Spotify’s Partnership with The Marcy Lab School

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Spotify Live: From Live to Recording

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Announcing the Spotify FOSS Fund

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Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically

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Comparing quantiles at scale in online A/B-testing

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Zela Taino: iOS Engineer

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Introducing Natural Language Search for Podcast Episodes

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Why We Switched Our Data Orchestration Service

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Incident Report: Spotify Outage on March 8

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Chantal Delfeld: Engineer

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Jordan Loeser: Web Engineer

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Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers

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Search Journey Towards Better Experimentation Practices 

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Mesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer 

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Fred Wang: Senior Backend Engineer

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Introducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size

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Product Lessons from ML Home: Spotify’s One-Stop Shop for Machine Learning

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Product Lessons from ML Home: Spotify’s One-Stop Shop for Machine Learning

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Product Lessons from ML Home: Spotify’s One-Stop Shop for Machine Learning

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The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical

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The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical

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The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical

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A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You

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A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You

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A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You

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How Spotify Uses ML to Create the Future of Personalization

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How Spotify Uses ML to Create the Future of Personalization

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How Spotify Uses ML to Create the Future of Personalization

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The Rise (and Lessons Learned) of ML Models to Personalize Content on Home (Part II)

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The Rise (and Lessons Learned) of ML Models to Personalize Content on Home (Part II)

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Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%

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The Rise (and Lessons Learned) of ML Models to Personalize Content on Home (Part I)

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Changing the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration

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A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App

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How Backstage Made Our Developers More Effective — And How It Can Help Yours, Too

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Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python

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Four Lessons We Learned from Creating Spotify’s Desktop App

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Patrick Balestra: Senior Engineer

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Achieving Team Purpose and Pride with Scrum

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A Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s Autonomous Culture

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Spotify Wins CNCF’s Top End User Award and Toots Own Horn About It

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Customization vs. Configuration in Evolving Design Systems

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Nour Daoud Bösing: Security Engineer

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Rethinking Spotify Search

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Building the Future of Our Desktop Apps

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David Riordan: Product Manager

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Why You Should Pair with Non-Engineers

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Happy Birthday, Backstage: Spotify’s Biggest Open Source Project Grows Up Fast

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Spotify’s New Experimentation Coordination Strategy

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Matt Clarke: Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer

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2020 Unwrapped: The people behind the numbers

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Designing a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers

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How Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

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Protected: Matt Clarke: Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer

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Protected: Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics

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How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later

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Protected: It’s All Just Wiggly Air: Building Infrastructure to Support Audio Research

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Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 2)

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Spotify’s New Experimentation Platform (Part 1)

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Managing Clouds from the Ground Up: Cost Engineering at Spotify

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Backstage as a Sandbox Project

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Spotify Unwrapped 2019: How We Built an In-App Experience Just for You

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Lemonade from Lemons: Tiny Desk Conference

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Listening Together, Miles Apart

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How We Improved Developer Productivity for Our DevOps Teams

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How We Use Golden Paths to Solve Fragmentation in Our Software Ecosystem

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My Beat: Erick Camacho

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Leveraging Mobile Infrastructure with Data-Driven Decisions

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Tech Migrations, the Spotify Way

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My Beat: Carl Engström

Meet some of our busy engineers, product managers and technical team members – who are working from home at the moment, but still have plenty of big projects in the pipeline. Carl Engström (known to everyone as “Eng”) is a Staff Engineer in our Gothenburg office. But right now, he’s staying home and keeping busy…

Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices

Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on Liked Songs enabled his team to address a much deeper issue and improve the listening experience of end users, whatever their device or network.    At first glance, lifting the 10,000 limit on Liked Songs seems like a simple engineering exercise. Some Reddit commentators even…

Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices

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My Beat: Alia Rose Connor

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My Beat: Alia Rose Connor

Meet some of our busy engineers, product managers and technical team members – who are working from home at the moment, but still have plenty of big projects in the pipeline. Alia works as an Agile Coach Manager in our New York office. But right now, she’s 150km away – working from her house in…

How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI

Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up to 75%. Who doesn’t love a continuous integration system that is stable, fast, reliable and feels transparent to its users? One of the missions of the Client Platform tribe at Spotify is to improve the continuous integration and…

How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI

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How We Use Backstage at Spotify

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How 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. You can read more about what Backstage does, and our plans for its future, in our previous post, “What the heck is Backstage anyway?” But this post is going to be less telling and…

My Beat: Ann Clifton

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My Beat: Ann Clifton

Meet some of our busy engineers, product managers and technical team members – who are working from home at the moment, but still have plenty of big projects in the pipeline. Ann is a Senior Research Scientist and has worked in our New York office for just over a year. She spoke to us from…

Introducing the Spotify Podcast Dataset and TREC Challenge 2020

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Introducing the Spotify Podcast Dataset and TREC Challenge 2020

Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more. With the additions of acquisitions including Gimlet and Parcast, we have a whole host of expertly created content, and with the addition of DIY podcasting platform Anchor, now everyone has access to tools to…

Reach for the Top: How Spotify Built Shortcuts in Just Six Months

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Reach for the Top: How Spotify Built Shortcuts in Just Six Months

The launch of Shortcuts, which now appears at the top of Spotify Home, is an important step forward in how listeners experience their favorite music and podcasts. Engineering Manager, Damien Tardieu, tells the story behind the launch of this exciting new feature and why the methodology chosen to support its development was the foundation for…

When should I write an Architecture Decision Record?

tl;dr Have you made a significant decision that impacts how engineers write software? Write an ADR! An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is a document that captures a decision, including the context of how the decision was made and the consequences of adopting the decision.  At Spotify, a handful of teams use ADRs to document their…

When should I write an Architecture Decision Record

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My Beat: Stefan Ålund

Meet some of our busy engineers, product managers and technical team members – who are working from home at the moment, but still have plenty of big projects in the pipeline. Stefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the world – is…

My Beat: Stefan Ålund

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Spotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch

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Spotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch

This week, we launched our podcasts API. This means that our new API is now open to third-party developers! Third-party apps can now connect to Spotify and manage a user’s podcast library, search our podcast catalog, or fetch detailed information about podcast shows and episodes. We’re excited to see the apps and mashups that developers…

My Beat: Tony Jebara

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My Beat: Tony Jebara

My Beat is a blog series that turns the spotlight towards technical employees across various disciplines and roles to showcase what a typical day as a Spotifier consists of. Tony joined Spotify New York last summer as VP of Engineering and Head of Machine Learning. Here, he talks us through his busy working days and…

What 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 the feedback we received. So, I wanted to take this opportunity to further explain what we’re trying to do with Backstage — and more importantly, what we want to give to the greater engineering…

What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?

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My Beat: Per Wendin

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My Beat: Per Wendin

My Beat is a blog series that turns the spotlight towards technical employees across various disciplines and roles to showcase what a typical day as a Spotifier consists of.  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…

How We Improved Data Discovery for Data Scientists at Spotify

At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether we’re considering a big shift in our product strategy or we’re making a relatively quick decision about which track to add to one of our editorially-programmed playlists, data provides a foundation for sound decision making. An insight is a conclusion drawn from data that can…

How We Improved Data Discovery for Data Scientists at Spotify

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Techbytes: What The Industry Misses About Incidents and What You Can Do

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How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience

A business with eyes on the future Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up more than 50 million tracks (plus an array of images and other assets) to more than 230 million monthly active users around the world — making us one of the world’s leading streaming services. With…

How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience

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My Beat: Dave Zolutsky

My Beat is a blog series that turns the spotlight towards technical employees across various disciplines and roles to showcase what a typical day as a Spotifier consists of.  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…

My Beat: Dave Zolotusky

My Beat is a blog series that turns the spotlight towards technical employees across various disciplines and roles to showcase what a typical day as a Spotifier consists of.  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…

Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data

The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year. Since 2019 was the end of the decade, we wanted to do something special for our users. As one of the few…

Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data

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My Beat: Dave Zolotusky

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Techbytes: Hans Dockter discusses Developer Productivity Engineering

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My Beat: Ajay Kalia

My Beat is a blog series that turns the spotlight towards technical employees across various disciplines and roles to showcase what a typical day as a Spotifier consists of.  Ajay is a Group Product Manager on the Voice team and has worked in our Boston office ever since it was set up. Here, he talks…

My Beat: Ajay Kalia

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Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data

The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year. Since 2019 was the end of the decade, we wanted to do something special for our users. As one of the few…

My Beat: Anna Smith

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My Beat: Anna Smith

My Beat is a blog series that turns the spotlight towards technical employees across various disciplines and roles to showcase what a typical day as a Spotifier consists of.  Anna started at our New York office three years ago and has recently been promoted to Staff Engineer. She and her husband live in Brooklyn and…

For Your Ears Only: Personalizing Spotify Home with Machine Learning

This article is based on the keynote given by Tony Jebara at TensorFlow World in Santa Clara, California, October 2019. You can watch the presentation here. Machine learning is at the heart of everything we do at Spotify. Especially on Spotify Home, where it enables us to personalize the user experience and provide billions of…

For Your Ears Only: Personalizing Spotify Home with Machine Learning

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My Beat: Lynn Root

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My Beat: Lynn Root

My Beat is a blog series that turns the spotlight towards technical employees across various disciplines and roles to showcase what a typical day as a Spotifier consists of.  Lynn is one of our Staff Engineers and has just celebrated her six-year anniversary at Spotify. Starting out in our San Francisco office, she later moved…

Techbytes: Behind the Scenes with the Creator of Advent Code

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The Winding Road to Better Machine Learning Infrastructure Through Tensorflow Extended and Kubeflow

Spotify has used Machine Learning for over a decade but being systematic about the development and deployment of Machine Learning is a recent introduction. Learn how that journey has gone and what their Machine Learning Platform looks like today and how it leverages TFX and Kubeflow Pipelines.

Views From The Cloud: A History of Spotify’s Journey to the Cloud, Part 1

Spotify's migration from data centers to Google Cloud Platform

Test Flakiness – Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests

On September 12, 2019 I spoke at Assert(JS) in Toronto to talk about my journey with test flakiness at Spotify and some of the systems we have built over the years to address flakiness. Assert(JS) is a conference dedicated entirely to automated testing for web systems and this was the second year it has been…

Spotify’s Event Delivery – Life in the Cloud

A blog post describing how Spotify's event delivery has evolved after being on the Google Cloud Platform for two and a half years

When in Rome: How Spotify halved build times with just one script

How do you cut iOS app build times by 50%? Patrick Balestra, an engineer at Spotify, explains how his team helped improve developer productivity and the end user experience. One of the great things about working at Spotify as an engineer, is the opportunity to improve the experience of our listeners. But it's equally rewarding…

Solving documentation for monoliths and monorepos

We've been working on making documentation easier in large codebases, such as monoliths and monorepositories. Having built the solution with customers in mind, we're happy to open source our work to share with the engineering community.

Reflections on the Last Two Years of Spotify’s Bug Bounty Program

We recently surpassed the two year anniversary of our bug bounty program on the HackerOne platform. This gave us pause to take a look back at our successes and learnings in engaging with the security community to help improve security at Spotify.  What is a bug bounty program? The Internet was conceived as an open…

web-scripts – creating NPM libraries in a snap at Spotify

At Spotify, we love sharing code. We have many autonomous teams creating new stuff every day, and we need to be able to share code between those teams in an efficient manner, with a high degree of confidence and reliability. For web libraries, that means NPM. We are also really excited about TypeScript. For apps…

Behind the Scenes of Spotify’s NYC Technology Fellowship Program

It is no surprise that the tech industry lags behind on diversity standards and metrics, particularly in the field of software engineering. Most software engineering roles require experience, further compounding the lack of diversity. At Spotify, we've designed a number of programs and initiatives to identify, hire, and grow aspiring engineers from a number of…

Painting a Picture of Your Infrastructure in Minutes

As a Security responder, it is important to have access to relevant information quickly in order to get a more complete picture of an ongoing or potential incident. Modern microservice architecture usually means that the number of services, and thus hosts and related assets, are much higher than they used to. This means that getting…

Scio 0.7: a deep dive

Overview of the 0.7.0 release of Scio, a Scala API for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow.

(Right to Left (The Mirror World

Localization at Spotify is a big deal. Our mission is to “unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.” To achieve this mission, it’s important to be able to effectively communicate across…

An opinionated anthropology of the embedded programmer, its habits and habitat

Illustrations by Jonas Ekman Registers! Oscilloscopes! Beards! Serial Ports! C! Cycle shaving! Beards! Interrupts! Assembly! Did I mention beards? If I were to say the words “embedded programmer” most people in our industry would immediately conjure up an image of a heroic character. A magnificent developer with arcane skills, an encyclopedic knowledge of the occult,…

Whacking a million moles: Automated Incident Response Infrastructure in GCP

Incident responders want to have as much information as possible to ease the investigation and triage process. Additionally, intrusion detection engineers want to know about forensic artifacts and map server baselines (running processes, storage artifacts on disk) on a large fleet of servers in order to quickly identify anomalies. This is difficult in the context…

Building Spotify’s New Web Player

The purpose of this post is to tell the story of the new Spotify web player. How and why it came to be. We will focus on what the steps were that led to a complete rewrite and how the lessons learned influenced the experience and the tech decisions of the new web player for…

Bigtable Autoscaler: saving money and time using managed storage

Background At Spotify we are moving to managed infrastructure solutions to focus more on our core competencies. In the databases space that means moving to Google Cloud managed databases. Bigtable is a database battle tested by Google internally since 2005 and available as a service since 2015. With regional replication now available, Bigtable is one…

Introducing Chartify: Easier chart creation in Python for data scientists

Why we built Chartify, a new open source Python data visualization library for Data Scientists

Scalable User Privacy

At Spotify, we have a complex and diverse data processing ecosystem. Our backend infrastructure handles millions of requests per second, which are processed by over a thousand (micro)services. Our batch pipeline environment is equally complex and diverse; we run thousands of jobs written in a variety of frameworks such as Scio, BigQuery, Apache Crunch and…

Introducing cstar: The Spotify Cassandra orchestration tool, now open source

Today, we announce that we are open sourcing cstar, our Cassandra orchestration tool. Operating Cassandra is not always an easy task. It has a myriad of knobs you can tune that affect performance, security, data consistency etc. Very often you need to run a specific set of shell commands on each node of a cluster,…

Smoother Streaming with BBR

We flipped one server flag and got more download bandwidth for Spotify users. That is the TL;DR of this A/B experiment with BBR, a new TCP option. Background BBR is a TCP congestion control algorithm developed by Google. It aims to make Internet data transfers faster, which is no small feat! How Spotify Streams Music…

Spotify ML Day – Coverage

Spotify presented its first Machine Learning Day at Spotify headquarters in Stockholm on Monday 9th July to coincide with the International Conference on Machine Learning starting the following day. The ML Day brought together 150 researchers and engineers from Spotify and the wider community around the themes of music understanding, generation, and recommendation. We explored…

Releasing Gimme: Managing time bound IAM conditions in Google Cloud Platform

We're excited to release Gimme to the world. Gimme presents its users with a simple web interface that allows anyone with access to it to create time bound IAM conditions in Google Cloud Platform. The Cloud IAM Conditions framework is a new feature of Google Cloud Platform announced at Next 2018 in San Fransisco. It is…

Spotify ML Day – July 9th 2018 – Stockholm

We are happy to announce the first Spotify Machine Learning Day taking place Monday, July 9th, 2018, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM at Spotify, Regeringsgatan 19, Stockholm, Sweden. The event brings together leading researchers from the industry on machine learning topics related to music understanding and generation, recommendation, and counterfactual evaluation. We invite anyone interested…

Introducing The Million Playlist Dataset and RecSys Challenge 2018

Spotify introduces the Million Playlist Dataset, a dataset for open research in Machine Learning and Music Recommender Systems, in conjunction with the ACM RecSys Challenge 2018

Introducing Coördinator: A new open source project made at Spotify to inject some whimsy into data visualizations

Coördinator is an open source browser interface to help you turn an SVG into XY coordinates. That means you can now take any SVG file, turn it into dots, and use those dots in a data visualization.

Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Continuous Delivery Engineer Donnie Thompson

This is part 5 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in a range of different tech roles, and learn more about their journey to Spotify and what they love about working here. What’s your name and where are you from? My name is Donnie Thompson. I’m…

Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Data Engineer Ankita Pawar

This is part 4 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in a range of different tech roles, and learn more about their journey to Spotify and what they love about working here. What’s your name and where are you from? My name is Ankita Pawar. I…

Testing of Microservices

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Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Engineer Daenney Sluijters

This is part 3 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in a range of different tech roles, and learn more about their journey to Spotify and what they love about working here. What’s your name and where are you from? My name is Daenney and I’m…

Spotify Retro Kit

TL;DR: We have created the Retro Kit. It can be downloaded by following this link. Retro Kit… but why? Historically at Spotify there has been an Agile Coach attached to each team. That coach has, among other things, helped the team to improve their processes. A central piece to that improvement are regular retrospectives where…

Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Data Engineer Dara Elass

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Spotify Spotlight: Interview with Product Manager Sabrina Aronson

This is part 1 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in a range of different tech roles, and learn more about their journey to Spotify and what they love about working here. What’s your name and where are you from? My name is Sabrina Rabello Aronson.…