Tag archive: backend
Jun 22, 2023
Analyzing Volatile Memory on a Google Kubernetes Engine Node
TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across […]
Feb 21, 2023
A Multi-Year Challenge: Repairing Deep Linking & Attribution at Spotify
Deep linking and attribution are important functionalities for a growing […]
Nov 8, 2022
Spotify’s Vulnerability Management Platform
We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify […]
Oct 25, 2022
Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE
TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero […]
Aug 23, 2022
How We Maintain Security Testing within the Software Development Life Cycle
TL;DR The software development life cycle (SDLC) has always been […]
Jul 5, 2022
What it Took to Scale Spotify’s Marketing Efforts
At Spotify, we’ve tried to uphold the tradition of running […]
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 […]
May 12, 2022
Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents
This past year, a few of us who focus on […]
Apr 14, 2022
Spotify’s Player API: Your Toolkit for Controlling Spotify Programmatically
In 2017, we launched the Spotify Connect Web API, a […]
Mar 14, 2022
Why We Switched Our Data Orchestration Service
TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined […]
Mar 11, 2022
Incident Report: Spotify Outage on March 8, 2022
On March 8, we experienced a global outage triggered by […]
Feb 22, 2022
Mesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… I specialize […]
Dec 7, 2021
A Look Behind Blend: The Personalized Playlist for You…and You
What does it take to go from an idea for […]
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 […]
May 18, 2021
A Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s Autonomous Culture
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “Spotify: A […]
Apr 15, 2021
Rethinking Spotify Search
Search @ Spotify Search is a well-established functionality across different […]
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 last year, he was living and working in London – but that’s all changed since the start of the pandemic…
Mar 1, 2021
Designing a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers
TLDR; If you’re deploying a service with Kubernetes, you shouldn’t […]
Jan 20, 2021
Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics
TL;DR We just open sourced XCMetrics — a tool for […]
Jun 25, 2020
Tech Migrations, the Spotify Way
Stuck in the long tail In our experience, big technology […]
Apr 21, 2020
How We Use Backstage at Spotify
Backstage is Spotify’s homegrown developer portal. We’ve been using it internally […]
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 world – is working from home, […]
Mar 25, 2020
Spotify’s New Podcast API: From Design to Launch
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 […]
Mar 17, 2020
What the Heck is Backstage Anyway?
Yesterday, we released the open source version of Backstage, our homegrown […]
Feb 24, 2020
How Spotify Aligned CDN Services for a Lightning Fast Streaming Experience
A business with eyes on the future Spotify built its […]
Feb 18, 2020
Dave Zolotusky: Senior Staff Engineer
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 […]