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Building Confidence: A Case Study in How to Create Confidence Scores for GenAI Applications

TL;DR Getting a response from GenAI is quick and straightforward. But what about the…
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Mar 25, 2025

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TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help suppe
TestThis is a new cat
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Nov 25, 2024

Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created […]
Developer ToolsOpen SourcePeople
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Oct 21, 2024

How We Generated Millions of Content Annotations

With the fields of machine learning (ML) and generative AI […]
DataMachine Learning
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Sep 5, 2024

Are You a Dalia? How We Created Data Science Personas for Spotify’s Analytics Platform

On Spotify’s Analytics Platform, we’re dedicated to building products that […]
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Aug 28, 2024

Unlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale

We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight […]
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Jul 10, 2024

Technical Decision-Making in a Fragmented Space: Spotify In-Car Case Study

Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with […]
Developer ToolsProduct
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May 28, 2024

Data Platform Explained Part II 

Check out Data Platform Explained Part I, where we started […]
DataData SciencePlatform
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May 15, 2024

Fixed-Power Designs: It’s Not IF You Peek, It’s WHAT You Peek at

TL;DR Sometimes we cannot estimate the required sample size needed […]
DataData Science
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Apr 30, 2024

Supercharged Developer Portals

Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source framework for building IDPs.
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Apr 2, 2024

Data Platform Explained Part I

As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining […]
DataData ScienceInfrastructurePlatform
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Mar 5, 2024

Risk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics

TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, Schultzberg, […]
DataData SciencePlatform
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Feb 7, 2024

Applying the Facade Pattern on Spotify for Artists

At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to […]
DesignDeveloper ToolsWeb
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Jan 24, 2024

Exploring the Animation Landscape of 2023 Wrapped

Each year, we aim to elevate the Spotify Wrapped experience […]
DesignDeveloper Tools
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Jan 4, 2024

Q&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR Let’s cap the year by putting a spotlight on […]
Open SourcePeople
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Dec 5, 2023

Recursive Embedding and Clustering

Large sets of diverse data present several challenges for clustering, but through a novel approach that combines dimensionality reduction, recursion, and supervised machine learning, we’ve been able to obtain strong results.
DataData Science
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Nov 14, 2023

The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size

Sometimes a shiny new feature brings more harm than good. The reason is simple — application size. Any addition to the application — be it code for a new feature, an image resource for a new button or even support for a new localization — contributes to the increase of the application’s size.
Developer ToolsMobilePlatformProduct
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Nov 8, 2023

Spotify Wins CNCF Top End User Award for the Second Time!

This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that Spotify won their Top End User Award.
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Nov 7, 2023

How We Automated Content Marketing to Acquire Users at Scale

Spotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms. Being efficient with our marketing budget is critical for maximizing the return on ad spend.
Developer ToolsMachine LearningPlatform
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Oct 25, 2023

Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library

For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search […]
DataData ScienceMachine LearningOpen Source
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Oct 23, 2023

Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the Spotify FOSS […]
Open SourcePeople
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Oct 20, 2023

Exclude from Your Taste Profile

What is “Exclude from your taste profile”? Are you a […]
Data ScienceMachine LearningProduct
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Oct 17, 2023

Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly

At Spotify, we have experimented with the Bazel build system […]
Developer ToolsInfrastructureOpen SourcePeople
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Oct 5, 2023

Managing Software at Scale: Kelsey Hightower Talks with Niklas Gustavsson about Fleet

How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up […]
PeoplePlatform
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Sep 28, 2023

How to Accurately Test Significance with Difference in Difference Models

When we want to determine the causal effect of a […]
DataData Science
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Aug 24, 2023

Encouragement Designs and Instrumental Variables for A/B Testing

At Spotify, we run a lot of A/B tests. Most […]
DataData Science
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Aug 16, 2023

Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation

As companies mature, it’s easy to believe that the core […]
DataData Science
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Aug 3, 2023

Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify

TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software […]
DataData SciencePlatform
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Jul 25, 2023

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

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the within-unit […]
DataData SciencePlatform
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Jul 18, 2023

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

Spotify’s approach to challenges in sequential testing with longitudinal data  […]
DataData SciencePlatform
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Jun 28, 2023

Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging

Messaging at Spotify At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate […]
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