Apr 23, 2025
Celebrating Five Years of Backstage: From Open Source Project to Enterprise Business
Did you know that we sell Spotify’s developer productivity tools and support to other companies, from online...
May 9, 2025
Incident Report: Spotify Outage on April 16, 2025
On April 16, Spotify experienced an outage that affected users worldwide. Here is what happened and what we...
Apr 17, 2025
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Release the Spotify App (Part 1)
Developing and releasing mobile apps at scale is a big challenge. With each weekly release of our mobile app...
Mar 25, 2025
An Insider’s Tips for Taking the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) Exam
TL;DR There’s a brand new engineering certification in town: Certified Backstage Associate (CBA). Offered...
Dec 12, 2024
Building Confidence: A Case Study in How to Create Confidence Scores for GenAI Applications
TL;DR Getting a response from GenAI is quick and straightforward. But what about the confidence level for...
Nov 25, 2024
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 open...
Oct 21, 2024
How We Generated Millions of Content Annotations
With the fields of machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) continuing to rapidly evolve and expand,...
Sep 5, 2024
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...
Aug 28, 2024
Unlocking Insights with High-Quality Dashboards at Scale
We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight teams and analysts from across the company are constantly...
Jul 10, 2024
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...
May 28, 2024
Data Platform Explained Part II
Check out , where we started sharing the journey of building a data platform, its building blocks, and the...
May 15, 2024
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....
Apr 30, 2024
Supercharged Developer Portals
Today, we announced Spotify’s latest products and services for companies adopting Backstage, the open source...