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April 18, 2023


FLEET MANAGEMENT AT SPOTIFY (PART 1): SPOTIFY’S SHIFT TO A FLEET-FIRST MINDSET

TL;DR Instead of performing 10 major software upgrades to our infrastructure
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 * April 18, 2023
   
   
   FLEET MANAGEMENT AT SPOTIFY (PART 1): SPOTIFY’S SHIFT TO A FLEET-FIRST
   MINDSET
   
   TL;DR Instead of performing 10 major software upgrades to our infrastructure
   every year, what if we did 10,000 small ones? [...]
   
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 * April 13, 2023
   
   
   LARGE-SCALE GENERATION OF ML PODCAST PREVIEWS AT SPOTIFY WITH GOOGLE DATAFLOW
   
   Integrating the Podz ML pipeline into Spotify As of March 8, 2023, Spotify
   has started serving short previews for music, [...]
   
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 * March 31, 2023
   
   
   LOAD TESTING FOR 2022 WRAPPED
   
   Wrapped is Spotify’s global annual year-end campaign that celebrates our
   listeners with a personalized review of their listening habits over [...]
   
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 * March 21, 2023
   
   
   CHOOSING SEQUENTIAL TESTING FRAMEWORK — COMPARISONS AND DISCUSSIONS
   
   TL;DR Sequential tests are the bread and butter for any company conducting
   online experiments. The literature on sequential testing has [...]
   
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 * March 15, 2023
   
   
   ENCORE X ACCESSIBILITY: A BALANCING ACT
   
   On the Encore team (Spotify’s design system), there’s nothing we love more
   than collaborating with our fellow squads — (1) [...]
   
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 * March 6, 2023
   
   
   GETTING MORE FROM YOUR TEAM HEALTH CHECKS
   
   Watch Justin and Fiona speak about ‘Team Health Checks — One Size Does Not
   Fit All’ at the Spotify Engineering [...]
   
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 * February 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 you to the content you [...]
   
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 * February 15, 2023
   
   
   INCIDENT REPORT: SPOTIFY OUTAGE ON JANUARY 14, 2023
   
   On January 14, between 00:15 UTC and 03:45 UTC, Spotify suffered an outage.
   The impact was small at first and [...]
   
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 * February 1, 2023
   
   
   UNLEASHING ML INNOVATION AT SPOTIFY WITH RAY
   
   Introduction As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and
   its impact on society and various aspects of [...]
   
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 * January 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 [...]
   
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 * January 5, 2023
   
   
   WHAT’S A “LISTENING PERSONALITY”?
   
   We did a couple of new things in Wrapped this year, and one of these is a
   thing called Your [...]
   
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 * December 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
   Plugins for Backstage bundle subscription. Some of these commercial plugins
   [...]
   
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 * November 15, 2022
   
   
   STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR PERFORMING MIGRATIONS ON PLATFORM
   
   Needing to deliver faster and more reliably while managing a growing number
   of contributors and a more complex codebase seems [...]
   
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 * November 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 implemented it and [...]
   
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 * October 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 developers and giving teams the [...]
   
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 * October 25, 2022
   
   
   BRINGING THE CLIMATE FIGHT TO YOUR IDE
   
   TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero emissions by 2030, we’ve
   made climate action one of our [...]
   
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 * October 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 our [...]
   
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 * September 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 listeners and creators every [...]
   
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    * Machine Learning
    * People
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 * September 29, 2022
   
   
   FROM DEVELOPMENT TO REAL USERS: HOW TO CREATE A WEB PERFORMANCE STORY
   
   Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with
   performance are, How do you convince stakeholders [...]
   
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    * Web

 * September 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 [...]
   
    * Infrastructure
    * Platform

 * August 23, 2022
   
   
   HOW WE MAINTAIN SECURITY TESTING WITHIN THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE
   
   TL;DR The software development life cycle (SDLC) has always been followed by
   functional testing to ensure software solutions have all [...]
   
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 * July 25, 2022
   
   
   SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION — CHALLENGE, ACCEPTED
   
   TL;DR Architectural diagrams are the bread and butter of software design and
   a foundational tool for communication and collaboration on [...]
   
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 * July 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 each [...]
   
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 * June 23, 2022
   
   
   Q&A WITH THE MAINTAINERS OF THE SPOTIFY FOSS FUND
   
   TL;DR We recently announced the 2022 recipients of the Spotify FOSS Fund,
   which we created to help support the open [...]
   
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