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Squad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve

A lot of companies experiment with ways of measuring and visualizing how their teams are doing. They’re usually called “maturity models”, … See more

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How Backstage Made Our Developers More Effective

WEBWhat’s the best way to assess your developers’ experience and performance to discover what they need help with? Is it by measuring something …

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Spotify Engineering

WEBIntroducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library. For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to …

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A Product Story: The Lessons of Backstage and Spotify’s …

WEBTLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “Spotify: A Product Story”, we share stories and lessons from building and open sourcing Backstage, our homegrown …

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Software Visualization — Challenge, Accepted

WEBSoftware Visualization — Challenge, Accepted. TL;DR Architectural diagrams are the bread and butter of software design and a foundational tool for communication …

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How Spotify Scales Apache Storm

WEBScalability is the ability of the software to keep up the performance even under increasing load by adding resources linearly. But achieving scalability requires more …

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Dare to be different (part 2)

WEBCulture at Spotify. My co-workers at Spotify often quote the famous Peter Drucker saying: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” And to be honest, when I first heard …

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In praise of “boring” technology

WEBIn praise of “boring” technology. February 25, 2013 Published by Björn Edström. In this article I will explain how Spotify uses different mature and proven …

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Designing a Better Kubernetes Experience for Developers

WEBEverything about your service in one place. As a standalone monitoring tool, we think Backstage Kubernetes can improve the experience of any developer who …

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Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 1): Spotify’s Shift to a Fleet-First

WEBThe small stuff adds up quickly. Maintaining thousands of components, even for minor updates, quickly gets arduous. More complex migrations — e.g., upgrading …

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Automated Incident Response Infrastructure in GCP

WEBGRR Admin UI: The Admin UI is a graphic interface that allows incident responders to easily schedule hunts. Using this Terraform module, GCE instance groups …

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Developer Tools Archives

WEBSpotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms. Being efficient with our marketing budget is critical for maximizing the return …

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Tech Migrations, the Spotify Way

WEBAfter some experimentation, we landed on a three-part strategy to make migrations more efficient. 1. Ruthlessly prioritize. The first part was to ensure we had the …

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Designing the Spotify perimeter

WEBDesigning the Spotify perimeter. October 9, 2015 Published by Alexey Lapitsky. In this blog post we focus on the web load balancers and various proxy …

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Spotify Retro Kit

WEBThe facilitator should read through the black pages before starting and also select the retrospective format they want to use. If the facilitator hasn’t used the Retro …

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How We Built Infrastructure to Run User Forecasts at Spotify

WEBTL;DR With Spotify’s rapid global expansion to more than 180 countries, it’s critical that the infrastructure of user forecasts catch up to business needs.As the …

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Product Lessons from ML Home: Spotify’s One-Stop Shop for …

WEBThe initial feedback we received on our MVP fell on two ends of the spectrum. Individual contributions struggled with the broad idea of a “one-stop shop” and …

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Achieving fault-tolerance with intelligent daemons

WEBAchieving fault-tolerance with intelligent daemons. March 6, 2013 Published by Björn Edström. Powering the Spotify service is a backend of dozens of different, …

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