Tag archive: Data
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 […]
Aug 28, 2024
Unlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale
We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight […]
May 28, 2024
Data Platform Explained Part II
Check out Data Platform Explained Part I, where we started […]
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 […]
Apr 2, 2024
Data Platform Explained Part I
As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining […]
Mar 14, 2022
Why We Switched Our Data Orchestration Service
TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined […]
Feb 16, 2022
Fred Wang: Senior Backend Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped… I’m part […]
Dec 17, 2021
The Audio Aura Story: Mystical to Mathematical
TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express […]
Oct 20, 2021
Changing the Wheels on a Moving Bus — Spotify’s Event Delivery Migration
At Spotify, data rules all. We log a variety of […]
Mar 1, 2021
2020 Unwrapped: The people behind the numbers
2020 Wrapped is a story of gratitude and resilience. And […]
Feb 11, 2021
How Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped […]
Sep 21, 2020
Spotify Unwrapped 2019: How We Built an In-App Experience Just for You
As we prepare to launch 2020 Wrapped, we remind ourselves […]
Sep 3, 2020
Listening Together, Miles Apart
Every second more than 30,000 people around the world press […]
Jul 22, 2020
Leveraging Mobile Infrastructure with Data-Driven Decisions
TL;DR The pursuit wasn’t always easy, but “putting data first” […]
May 28, 2020
Spotify Modernizes Client-Side Architecture to Accelerate Service on All Devices
Engineer Carl Engström explains how lifting the 10,000 limit on […]
Apr 17, 2020
Ann Clifton: Senior Research Scientist
Ann is a Senior Research Scientist and has worked in our New York office for just over a year. She spoke to us from her apartment in Fort Greene, which she shares with her husband and two rescue dogs, Birdie and Buttercup […]
Apr 16, 2020
Introducing the Spotify Podcast Dataset and TREC Challenge 2020
Podcasts are exploding in popularity. Since 2015, we’ve added hundreds of thousands of shows, and users are listening more and more […]
Apr 14, 2020
When Should I Write an Architecture Decision Record
TL;DR Have you made a significant decision that impacts how […]
Feb 27, 2020
How We Improved Data Discovery for Data Scientists at Spotify
At Spotify, we believe strongly in data-informed decision making. Whether […]
Feb 18, 2020
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data
The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social […]
Feb 6, 2020
Techbytes: Hans Dockter discusses Developer Productivity Engineering
Tune in to Hans Dockter, CEO & Founder of Gradle, […]
Jan 18, 2020
Anna Smith: Staff Engineer
Anna started at our New York office three years ago and has recently been promoted to Staff Engineer. She and her husband live in Brooklyn and met while working at Spotify – where they used to sit just […]
Dec 9, 2019
Views From The Cloud: A History of Spotify’s Journey to the Cloud, Part 1
Spotify’s Chief Architect, Niklas Gustavsson, was at the heart of […]
Nov 12, 2019
Spotify’s Event Delivery – Life in the Cloud
Spotify is a data informed company and in such a […]
Oct 16, 2019
Techbytes: Handling Big Data at Spotify
Hear from Spotify’s Erin Palmer, as she illustrates the use […]
May 30, 2019
Scio 0.7: a deep dive
Introduction Large-scale data processing is a critical component of Spotify’s […]
Nov 15, 2018
Introducing Chartify: Easier chart creation in Python for data scientists
Have you ever been frustrated with the complicated experience of making charts in Python? We have […]
Sep 18, 2018
Scalable User Privacy
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 […]
Sep 4, 2018
Introducing cstar: The Spotify Cassandra orchestration tool, now open source
Today, we announce that we are open sourcing cstar, our Cassandra orchestration tool […]