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TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help support the [...] The post Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

On Spotify’s Analytics Platform, we’re dedicated to building products that empower data practitioners to discover, analyze, and share insights — [...] The post Are You a Dalia? How We Created Data Science Personas for Spotify’s Analytics Platform appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

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.

TL;DR It’s back! Last year, we created the Spotify FOSS Fund to help support the free and open source software projects we use at Spotify. We’re excited to announce that the fund has returned for 2023, and the recipients have been selected. This year, the fund’s 100,000 EUR are going to the following four projects: [...] The post Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

At Spotify, we have experimented with the Bazel build system since 2017. Over the years, the project has matured, and support for more languages and ecosystems have been added, thanks to the open source community and its maintainers at Google. In 2020,  it became clear that the future of our client development required a unified [...] The post Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up of 500+ squads managing over 10,000 software components in production? Last November, Google Cloud distinguished engineer Kelsey Hightower met with Spotify chief architect Niklas Gustavsson at Spotify’s office in Gothenburg, Sweden, to talk about just that.  Watch the video below to hear the two go [...] The post Managing Software at Scale: Kelsey Hightower Talks with Niklas Gustavsson about Fleet appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

We are proud to share that Cloudflare has been certified and recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2023 by Newsweek and the Best Practice Institute (BPI) for the second consecutive year.

We are proud to share that Cloudflare has been certified and recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2023 by Newsweek and the Best Practice Institute (BPI) for the second consecutive year.

We're excited to introduce Michele Yetman as Cloudflare's new Chief People Officer

This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. See also part 1 and part 2. For the third part of this Fleet Management series, we’ll discuss what we call “fleet-wide refactoring” of code across thousands of Git repos: the tools we’ve built to [...] The post Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 3): Fleet-wide Refactoring appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

This is part 2 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. See also part 1 and part 3.  At Spotify, we adopted the declarative infrastructure paradigm to evolve our infrastructure platform’s configuration management and control plane approach, allowing us to manage hundreds of thousands of cloud [...] The post Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 2): The Path to Declarative Infrastructure appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

At Spotify, change is a constant, and our agile coaches are here to help teams and leaders thrive as we evolve. With agile principles famously part of our DNA, Spotify doesn’t need “transformation coaches,” as they are often known in the industry, but coaches who transform as organizational needs change. In the early 2010s, our [...] The post Agile Coaching (AC) at Spotify: Shining a Light on the AC Career Framework appeared first on Spotify Engineering.