Discover how we shortened the feedback loop of pre-merge verification checks for our iOS applications by up to 75%. Who [...]
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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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A business with eyes on the future Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up [...]
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The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see [...]
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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 [...]
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Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, as he explains the emerging practice of Developer Productivity Engineering [...]
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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 to NYC and now lives in Manhattan with her cat, Glitch [...]
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When Spotify launched in 2008 in Sweden, and in 2011 in the United States, people were amazed that they could access almost the world’s entire music catalog [...]
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Spotify’s Chief Architect, Niklas Gustavsson, was at the heart of the company’s journey to migrate its data centers to the [...]
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Spotify is a data informed company and in such a company Event Delivery is a key component. Every event containing [...]
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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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By John Rodriguez. Discover how Spotify engineers drive adoption and support of TypeScript within Spotify’s highly distributed engineering community.
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Engineer Bram Leenders, explains what crypto-shredding is, how Spotify uses it to respect users’ privacy — and how Padlock, our [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
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This is part 5 in our new interview series called “Spotify Spotlight.” In these interviews, we showcase Spotifiers working in [...]
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Anyone who has ever done manual testing knows that it’s slow, boring and error-prone. By writing automated tests we are trying to remove — or at the very least improve — on these pain points [...]
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Spotify’s Event Delivery system is responsible for delivering hundreds of billions of events every day. Most of the events are generated as a response [...]
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