Tag archive: engineering leadership
Apr 23, 2025
Celebrating Five Years of Backstage: From Open Source Project to Enterprise Business
Did you know that we sell Spotify’s developer productivity tools and support to other companies, from online...
Mar 25, 2025
An Insider’s Tips for Taking the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam
TL;DR There’s a brand new engineering certification in town: Certified Backstage Associate (CBA). Offered...
Nov 25, 2024
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help support the open...
Apr 30, 2024
Supercharged Developer Portals
Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source...
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 some of the valuable work people outside of Spotify are...
Nov 14, 2023
The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
Our daily tasks as engineers often involve implementing new functionalities. Existing users get to enjoy the...
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...
Oct 25, 2023
Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library
For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our...
Oct 23, 2023
Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the to help support the free and open source software projects we use...
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 of 500+ squads managing over 10,000 software...
Aug 3, 2023
Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify
TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our...
May 15, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 3): Fleet-wide Refactoring
This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. See also...
May 3, 2023
Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 2): The Path to Declarative Infrastructure
This is part 2 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. See also...
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 better listening experience for our users by creating...
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 at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. See also...
Apr 13, 2023
Large-Scale Generation of ML Podcast Previews at Spotify with Google Dataflow
As of March 8, 2023, Spotify has started serving short previews for music, podcasts, and audiobooks on the...
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 are here to help teams and leaders thrive as we...
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 bundle subscription. Some of these...
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 is empowering and unblocking client...
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...
Oct 5, 2022
Open Source Work Is Work
Back in June, I presented the current state of Spotify’s open source activities to our developers as part of...
Sep 29, 2022
Lessons Learned from Algorithmic Impact Assessments in Practice
TL;DR Understanding algorithmic impact is critical to building a platform that serves hundreds of millions of...
Jun 23, 2022
Q&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund
TL;DR We recently announced , which we created to help support the open source projects we use at Spotify. As...
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 FOSS Fund. The objective of this fund is to...
Jun 1, 2022
Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter
Introducing , Spotify’s free open source tool for converting audio into MIDI. Basic Pitch uses machine...
May 31, 2022
The Open Future
TL;DR What is the future of open source going to look like? At Spotify, we think it’s important to play an...
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...
May 4, 2022
Supporting Future Engineers: Spotify’s Partnership with The Marcy Lab School
In September 2020, we had the exciting opportunity to partner with with the hopes of creating opportunities...
Apr 22, 2022
Announcing the Spotify FOSS Fund
TLDR: Spotify is starting a Free and Open Source Software Fund (FOSS Fund) to pay maintainers of independent...
Mar 1, 2022
Introducing NerdOut@Spotify: A New Podcast for Developers
TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving you a peek behind the curtain at Spotify...