Tag archive: backend

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May 9, 2025

Incident Report: Spotify Outage on April 16, 2025

On April 16, Spotify experienced an outage that affected users worldwide. Here is what happened and what we...
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Jun 22, 2023

Analyzing Volatile Memory on a Google Kubernetes Engine Node

TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across our entire organization in five regions...
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May 10, 2023

TV Spatial Navigation

Very often, when developing user interfaces, a lot of focus is given to the visuals, as that’s what primarily...
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Feb 21, 2023

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

Deep linking and attribution are important functionalities for a growing business. Deep links seamlessly get...
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Nov 8, 2022

Spotify’s Vulnerability Management Platform

We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify in Q2, 2020, and now that we’ve...
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Oct 25, 2022

Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE

TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to , we’ve made climate action one of our five technology pillars and have...
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Sep 15, 2022

Scaling Translations at Spotify

Last year, we added support for 36 new languages to our products in one go, for a total of 62 languages. This...
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Aug 23, 2022

How We Maintain Security Testing within the Software Development Life Cycle

TL;DR The (SDLC) has always been followed by functional testing to ensure software solutions have all the...
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Jul 5, 2022

What it Took to Scale Spotify’s Marketing Efforts

At Spotify, we’ve tried to uphold the tradition of running one major holiday marketing campaign at the end of...
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Jun 16, 2022

How We Built Infrastructure to Run User Forecasts at Spotify

TL;DR With Spotify’s rapid global expansion to more than 180 countries, it’s critical that the infrastructure...
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May 12, 2022

Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents

This past year, a few of us who focus on the reliability of (S4A) spent some time taking a look at the...
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Apr 14, 2022

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

In 2017, we launched the , a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, stop, and...
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Mar 18, 2022

Zela Taino: iOS Engineer

Zela has worked on Spotify Wrapped for the past two years – most recently, taking on the role of Tech Lead…
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Mar 14, 2022

Why We Switched Our Data Orchestration Service

TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined in 1,000+ repositories, owned by 300+ teams...
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Mar 11, 2022

Incident Report: Spotify Outage on March 8, 2022

On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by issues in a cloud-hosted service discovery system...
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Mar 9, 2022

Chantal Delfeld: Engineer

Chantal is a Software Engineer and part of the Spotify team in New York. But she lives thousands of miles...
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Feb 22, 2022

Mesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer 

Mesfin is part of our Spotify New York team and jumped at the chance to work as an embed on 2021 Wrapped.
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Dec 7, 2021

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

What does it take to go from an idea for a new playlist, to shipping that playlist to Spotify users all...
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Sep 23, 2021

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

What’s the best way to assess your developers’ experience and performance to discover what they need help...
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May 18, 2021

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

TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “”, we share stories and lessons from building and open sourcing ,...
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Apr 15, 2021

Rethinking Spotify Search

Search is a well-established functionality across different industries, devices, and applications. When users...
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Mar 9, 2021

Matt Clarke: Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Matt is a Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer and has been at Spotify for two-and-a-half years. This time...
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Mar 1, 2021

Designing a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers

TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t have to use all of your cluster management...
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Jan 20, 2021

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

TL;DR We just open sourced — a tool for Apple’s developer software, Xcode, that lets you collect, display,...
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Jun 25, 2020

Tech Migrations, the Spotify Way

In our experience, big technology upgrade efforts or migrations (as we fondly call them at Spotify) gear up...
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Apr 21, 2020

How We Use Backstage at Spotify

is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally for years, but only recently...
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Apr 1, 2020

Stefan Ålund: Senior Product Manager

Stefan works as a Senior Product Manager in our Stockholm office. But at the moment, he – like much of the...
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Mar 25, 2020

Spotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch

This week, we launched our ! Third-party apps can now connect to Spotify and manage a user’s podcast library,...
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Mar 17, 2020

What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?

Yesterday, we released the open source version of , our homegrown developer portal. And we learned a thing or...
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Feb 24, 2020

How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience

Spotify built its business on flawless content delivery. Our streaming platform serves up more than 50...