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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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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Stefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the world – is working from home, [...]
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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 [...]
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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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On September 12, 2019 I spoke at Assert(JS) in Toronto to talk about my journey with test flakiness at Spotify and some [...]
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How do you cut iOS app build times by 50%? Patrick Balestra, an engineer at Spotify, explains how his team [...]
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At Spotify, we’re always trying to push the boundaries of the way the world experiences audio. In order to achieve [...]
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We recently surpassed the two year anniversary of our bug bounty program on the HackerOne platform. This gave us pause [...]
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At Spotify, we love sharing code. We have many autonomous teams creating new stuff every day, and we need to [...]
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As a Security responder, it is important to have access to relevant information quickly in order to get a more [...]
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Introduction Large-scale data processing is a critical component of Spotify’s business model. It drives music recommendations, artist payouts based on [...]
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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 [...]
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Incident responders want to have as much information as possible to ease the investigation and triage process [...]
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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 [...]
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At Spotify we are moving to managed infrastructure solutions to focus more on our core competencies [...]
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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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Today, we announce that we are open sourcing cstar, our Cassandra orchestration tool [...]
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Securing our Cloud infrastructure is incredibly important. We are now taking another step forward by leveraging open source tools we developed in [...]
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Like most of the web community, Spotify has found the combination of React and Redux to be a super powerful tool. It has allowed us to iterate quickly
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Five years ago, music personalization at Spotify was a tiny team. The team read papers, developed models, wrote data pipelines [...]
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Dependency Hell Most Java developers have probably run into problems where their code throws a NoSuchMethodError or a NoClassDefFoundError at [...]
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A few of us at Spotify are infatuated with RAML – a RESTful API Modeling Language described as “a simple and succinct [...]
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