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Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help support the [.

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How We Generated Millions of Content Annotations

With the fields of machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) continuing to rapidly evolve and expand, it has become [.

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Are You a Dalia? How We Created Data Science Personas for Spotify’s Analytics Platform

On Spotify’s Analytics Platform, we’re dedicated to building products that empower data practitioners to discover, analyze, and share insigh...

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Unlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale

We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify.

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Technical Decision-Making in a Fragmented Space: Spotify In-Car Case Study

Car rides have become connected and interactive these days with drivers jamming to music or catching up on podcasts or [.

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Data Platform Explained Part II 

Check out Data Platform Explained Part I, where we started sharing the journey of building a data platform, its building [.

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Fixed-Power Designs: It’s Not IF You Peek, It’s WHAT You Peek at

TL;DR Sometimes we cannot estimate the required sample size needed to power an experiment before starting it.

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Supercharged Developer Portals

Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source framework for building IDPs.

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Data Platform Explained

As engineers working at Spotify, we frequently find ourselves explaining our robust data platform to fellow professionals who are contemplat...

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Risk-Aware Product Decisions in A/B Tests with Multiple Metrics

TL;DR We summarize the findings in our recent paper, Schultzberg, Ankargren, and Frånberg (2024), where we explain how Spotify’s decision-ma...

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Applying the Facade Pattern on Spotify for Artists

Introduction At Spotify, we’re dedicated to delivering a unified experience to our customers — which can sometimes be at odds [.

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Exploring the Animation Landscape of 2023 Wrapped

Each year, we aim to elevate the Spotify Wrapped experience for our users, crafting captivating data stories and pushing the [.

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Q&A with the Maintainers of the Spotify FOSS Fund

TL;DR Let’s cap the year by putting a spotlight on some of the valuable work people outside of Spotify are [.

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Recursive Embedding and Clustering

Large sets of diverse data present several challenges for clustering, but through a novel approach that combines dimensionality reduction, r...

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The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size

Sometimes a shiny new feature brings more harm than good.

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Spotify Wins CNCF Top End User Award for the Second Time!

This week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced that Spotify won their Top End User Award....

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How We Automated Content Marketing to Acquire Users at Scale

Spotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms.

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Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library

For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our personalization, recommendation, and searc...

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Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Spotify FOSS Fund

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.

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Exclude from Your Taste Profile

What is “Exclude from your taste profile”? Are you a parent forced to put the Bluey theme song on repeat? Do you work from home and play lof...

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Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly

At Spotify, we have experimented with the Bazel build system since 2017.

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Managing Software at Scale: Kelsey Hightower Talks with Niklas Gustavsson about Fleet

How does Spotify manage a sprawling tech ecosystem made up of 500+ squads managing over 10,000 software components in production? Last Novem...

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How to Accurately Test Significance with Difference in Difference Models

When we want to determine the causal effect of a product or business change at Spotify, A/B testing is the gold standard.

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Encouragement Designs and Instrumental Variables for A/B Testing

At Spotify, we run a lot of A/B tests.

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Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation

As companies mature, it’s easy to believe that the core experience and most user needs have been resolved, and all that’s left to work towar...

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Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify

TL;DR: Spotify is releasing a new commercial product for software development teams: a version of our homegrown experimentation platform tha...

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Bringing Sequential Testing to Experiments with Longitudinal Data (Part 2): Sequential Testing

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the within-unit peeking problem that we call the “peeking problem 2.

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Bringing Sequential Testing to Experiments with Longitudinal Data (Part 1): The Peeking Problem 2.0

Spotify’s approach to challenges in sequential testing with longitudinal data  At Spotify, we’re constantly improving our data infrastructur...

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Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging

Messaging at Spotify At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate with our listeners all over the world.

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Analyzing Volatile Memory on a Google Kubernetes Engine Node

TL:DR At Spotify, we run containerized workloads in production across our entire organization in five regions where our main production work...

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Experimenting at Scale, the Spotify Home Way

Introduction In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital role in enhancing user experiences.

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Multiple Layers of Abstraction in Design Systems

Check out our previous post — Customization & Configuration in Design Systems — for more about how we define APIs for design systems.

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Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 3): Fleet-wide Refactoring

This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale.

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TV Spatial Navigation

Very often, when developing user interfaces, a lot of focus is given to the visuals, as that’s what primarily gets a user’s attention.

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Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 2): The Path to Declarative Infrastructure

This is part 2 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale.

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Humans + Machines: A Look Behind Spotify’s Algotorial Playlists

TL;DR Since 2017, Spotify has been working to create a better listening experience for our users by applying the expertise of our curators w...

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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 our lives grows, it ...

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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 evolve.

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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 Listening Personality.

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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.

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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 like the fate ...