Tag archive: engineering leadership
Nov 25, 2024
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
Oct 25, 2023
Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library
For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search […]
Oct 23, 2023
Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the Spotify FOSS […]
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 […]
Aug 3, 2023
Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify
TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software […]
May 15, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 3): Fleet-wide Refactoring
This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management […]
May 3, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 2): The Path to Declarative Infrastructure
This is part 2 in our series on Fleet Management […]
Apr 27, 2023
Humans + Machines: A Look Behind the Playlists Powered by Spotify’s Algotorial Technology
TL;DR Since 2017, Spotify has been working to create a […]
Apr 18, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 1): Spotify’s Shift to a Fleet-First Mindset
This is part 1 in our series on Fleet Management […]
Apr 13, 2023
Large-Scale Generation of ML Podcast Previews at Spotify with Google Dataflow
Integrating the Podz ML pipeline into Spotify As of March […]
Jan 18, 2023
Agile Coaching (AC) at Spotify: Shining a Light on the AC Career Framework
At Spotify, change is a constant, and our agile coaches […]
Dec 15, 2022
Shipping Spotify’s Culture: 5 Plugins (and 4 Principles) for Supercharging Developer Experience at Scale
ICYMI Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today: the Spotify […]
Oct 27, 2022
How We Improved the Development Experience for our Client Developers
TL;DR The core motivation for Spotify’s Client Platform (CliP) team […]
Oct 25, 2022
Bringing the Climate Fight to Your IDE
TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero […]
Sep 29, 2022
Lessons Learned from Algorithmic Impact Assessments in Practice
TL;DR Understanding algorithmic impact is critical to building a platform […]
Jun 23, 2022
Q&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR We recently announced the 2022 recipients of the Spotify […]
Jun 2, 2022
Say Hello to the Recipients of the 2022 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR Today we’re announcing the recipients of the first Spotify […]
Jun 1, 2022
Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter
Introducing Basic Pitch, Spotify’s free open source tool for converting […]
May 12, 2022
Failing Forward — How We Grow from Incidents
This past year, a few of us who focus on […]
May 4, 2022
Supporting Future Engineers: Spotify’s Partnership with The Marcy Lab School
In September 2020, we had the exciting opportunity to partner […]
Apr 22, 2022
Announcing the Spotify FOSS Fund
TLDR: Spotify is starting a Free and Open Source Software […]
Mar 1, 2022
Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving […]
Oct 5, 2021
A Product Story: Three Lessons We Learned from Developing the Mobile App
TL;DR Remember what life was like before smartphones? Remember manually […]
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 […]