Ann is a Senior Research Scientist and has worked in our New York office for just over a year. She spoke to us from her apartment in Fort Greene, which she shares with her husband and two rescue dogs, Birdie and Buttercup [...]
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Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more [...]
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tl;dr Have you made a significant decision that impacts how engineers write software? Write an ADR! An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is [...]
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At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether we’re considering a big shift in our product strategy or [...]
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Hear from Spotify’s Erin Palmer, as she illustrates the use of Scio with Big Data, discusses why it makes certain [...]
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Have you ever been frustrated with the complicated experience of making charts in Python? We have [...]
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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 [...]
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Here at Spotify, we love playlists. Playlists like Today’s Top Hits and RapCaviar have millions of loyal followers, while Discover Weekly [...]
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This is part 2 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
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Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
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Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
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Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a [...]
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WHAT IS DISCOVER WEEKLY? Every Monday Spotify delivers 75 million unique mixtapes to music lovers all over the world, we call [...]
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At Spotify we have have over 60 million active users who have access to a vast music catalog of over 30 million [...]
Published by Kinshuk Mishra and Matt Brown
At the heart of Spotify lives a massive and growing data-set. Most data is user-centric and allows us to provide [...]
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