TL;DR: securing our Cloud infrastructure is incredibly important. We are now taking another step forward by leveraging open source tools we developed in partnership with Google. Spotify engineering teams are fully embracing the devops culture: to increase development speed every dev team is responsible for their operational pipelines. From a security perspective we are continuously […]
Thinking of State in a World of URLs
An intro to Redux-Location-State Like most of the web community, Spotify has found the combination of React and Redux to be a super powerful tool. It has allowed us to iterate quickly, build powerful components that can be shared across development teams, and onboard new developers much faster than previously. While we generally love what […]
Improving Critical Infrastructure Rollouts
Spotify began using Docker with a few prototype services in 2014. We upgraded and configured it many times since and have almost every time come across issues that were often hard to detect and fix. When the number of backend services running on Docker was low, the impact of these issues was small. As Docker adoption grew so did the risk and impact of faulty Docker changes until they reached unacceptable levels. In October 2016, we deployed a bad configuration change that significantly affected the user experience.
At this point we went back to the drawing board and realized we needed a new solution that deployed fleet-wide infrastructure changes gradually and with more control. This is a story of how operating Docker at Spotify inspired us to build a service that gave us more control over the rollout of infrastructure changes on thousands of servers.
Meet our engineers – Charlie Pastuszenski
What’s your name and where are you from? My name is Charlie and I come from the US and grew up in Massachusetts. Before moving to Stockholm, I lived and worked for Spotify in New York City. What do you do at Spotify? I am a machine learning engineer. I spend my time writing data […]
Going Into Deep Space – Creating the Right Environment for Your Open Space
A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to facilitate Open Spaces for three different guild conferences. I’ve hosted Open Spaces several times before but this intense week added enough to my personal data that I feel it deserves a blog post that might help future unconference organizers make some […]
Spydra – Ephemeral Hadoop Clusters Using Google Compute Platform
We are happy to announce a new open sourced project from Spotify called Spydra. Spydra makes it easy to run data processing jobs in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Dataproc, automating the cluster life-cycle management and making troubleshooting of failed jobs easier. Spydra supports usage of ephemeral clusters created only for the duration of a single […]
Reliable export of Cloud Pub/Sub streams to Cloud Storage
Every day, Spotify users are generating more than 100 billion events. Every event is being generated as a response to an user action; listening to a song, clicking on an ad or subscribing to a playlist. All in all, we currently have more than 300 different event types being generated from Spotify clients. Once delivered, […]
Spotify’s Love/Hate Relationship with DNS
Spotify has a history of loving “boring” technologies. It’s not that often people talk about DNS; when they do, it’s usually to complain. But it’s because DNS is boring that we love it so much: this post will walk through how we’ve designed & manage our own DNS infrastructure, and pushing it to its limits.
Dare to be different (part 2)
Culture 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 them say it I simply nodded, as it sounded smart and I didn’t disagree. However, having just hit month six at Spotify, I can now hopefully […]
Google Cloud Security Toolbox
At Spotify, we actively manage more than 800 Google Cloud Platform projects. As such, maintaining a proper security posture at scale has proven to be a challenging task. In an effort to seamlessly audit and strengthen the security stance of our massive cloud infrastructure, we are investing various resources into building our own tools and […]
