Blog posts about Developer Productivity

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

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

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

This is part 3 in our series on Fleet Management at Spotify and how we manage our software at scale. See also part 1 ...

The Shopify CLI (command line interface) is an essential tool for developers when building and deploying Themes, Apps...

GitHub personal access tokens (PATs) are like a key: a very, very large key that opens a very, very wide door. Long-l...

ICYMI Spotify officially began selling enterprise software today: the Spotify Plugins for Backstage bundle subscripti...

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 [...]