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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.

We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight teams and analysts from across the company are constantly whipping [...] The post Unlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

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.

(This article originally appeared on LinkedIn) Advancements in AI consumed our attention and drove massive business considerations in 2023. Seemingly overnight, Generative AI (GAI) went mainstream – quickly becoming more deeply embedded across organizations and in everyone’s day-to-day work. Executives recognize the potential value GAI can bring to their organizations with 74% seeing at least one way it will benefit their employees, according to our September 2023 U.S. Executive Confidence Index. For engineering leaders, the focus in 2024 will be on how to best harness the potential […]

For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our personalization, recommendation, and search systems. The post Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

LinkedIn and Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Bowers CIS) embarked on a partnership, bringing together our collective research power to make technological advances that will further our goal to connect professionals with opportunities at scale. Through this partnership, we support Ph.D. students and faculty members on their research in areas in Computer Science, AI, Information Science including Diversity and Equity. Our 2022 recipients showcased the strong value of our partnership through incredible research in diverse topics including Allison […]

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.