Blog posts about Developer Productivity

We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify in Q2, 2020, and now that we’ve implemen...

Over the past few years, as I’ve been managing multiple developer infrastructure teams at once, I’ve found some tensi...

TL;DR The core motivation for Spotify’s Client Platform (CliP) team is empowering and unblocking client developers an...

TL;DR As part of Spotify’s goal to reach net zero emissions by 2030, we’ve made climate action one of our five techno...

Some of the most common questions asked when it comes to work with performance are, How do you convince stakeholders ...

TL;DR The software development life cycle (SDLC) has always been followed by functional testing to ensure software so...

You may have read about Spin, Shopify’s new cloud-based development tool. Instead of editing and running a local vers...

TL;DR Architectural diagrams are the bread and butter of software design and a foundational tool for communication an...

You may have read that Shopify has built an in-house cloud development platform named Spin. In that post, we covered ...

Outgrowing Our Development Environment Shopify has grown exponentially in recent years. Throughout that growth dev, ...

This past year, a few of us who focus on the reliability of Spotify for Artists (S4A) spent some time [...]

In 2017, we launched the Spotify Connect Web API, a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start,...

We are open sourcing Feathr – the feature store we built to simplify machine learning (ML) feature management and imp...

TL;DR Within Spotify, we run 20,000 batch data pipelines defined in 1,000+ repositories, owned by 300+ teams — daily....

7:00am My early mornings are spent running about after my children – getting them dressed, giving them breakfast and ...

At Shopify we run more than 170,000 tests in our core monolith. Naturally, we're constantly exploring ways to make th...

TL;DR For years, Spotify’s official engineering blog has been giving you a peek behind the curtain at Spotify R&D. To...

In Part I of this two-part series, we talked about the challenges we faced with the models we use to [...]