Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source framework for building IDPs. The post Supercharged Developer Portals appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more

As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow professionals who are contemplating [...] The post Data Platform Explained appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more

TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, Schultzberg, Ankargren, and Frånberg (2024), where we explain how Spotify’s decision-making [...] The post Risk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more

Introduction At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to our customers — which can sometimes be at odds [...] The post Applying the Facade Pattern on Spotify for Artists appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more

Each year, we aim to elevate the Spotify Wrapped experience for our users, crafting captivating data stories and pushing the [...] The post Exploring the Animation Landscape of 2023 Wrapped appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more

TL;DR Let’s cap the year by putting a spotlight on some of the valuable work people outside of Spotify are [...] The post Q&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more

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. The post The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more

This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that Spotify won their Top End User Award. The post Spotify Wins CNCF Top End User Award for the Second Time! appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more

Spotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms. Being efficient with our marketing budget is critical for maximizing the return on ad spend. The post How We Automated Content Marketing to Acquire Users at Scale appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more

For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our personalization, recommendation, and search systems. These technologies allow engineers and researchers to build systems that recommend similar items (like similar tracks, artists, or albums) without needing to run slow and expensive machine learning algorithms in real time. Spotify led the pack [...] The post Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library appeared first on Spotify Engineering ..read more