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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our homegrown experimentation platform that we’re calling Confidence. Based on everything we’ve learned over the last 10+ years about what it takes to enable experimentation at scale, the platform makes it easy for teams to set up, run, coordinate, and [...] The post Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

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.

TL;DR Since 2017, Spotify has been working to create a better listening experience for our users by applying the expertise of our curators with algorithmic personalization. The outcome of these efforts has resulted in what we call “Algotorial” playlists. The best of both worlds: Editorial and Algorithms  Spotify has a library of playlists for almost [...] The post Humans + Machines: A Look Behind Spotify’s Algotorial Playlists 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.

ICYMI Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today: the Spotify Plugins for Backstage bundle subscription. Some of these commercial plugins began life as internal tools, built by Spotify developers, for Spotify developers. Other plugins in the bundle are brand new to the Backstage platform. But they all embody our ways of working — our secret [...] The post Shipping Spotify’s Culture: 5 Plugins (and 4 Principles) for Supercharging Developer Experience at Scale appeared first on Spotify Engineering.