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From Peer-to-Peer to CDNs: How Spotify Actually Streams Audio
Why Spotify's early client-side streaming relied on peer-to-peer delivery, and why it later moved entirely to server and CDN-based delivery instead.
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From Log Files to Cloud Pub/Sub: Spotify's Event Delivery Evolution
How Spotify's event pipeline evolved from batch log collection off servers to a real-time, cloud-native Pub/Sub system serving hundreds of consuming teams.
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Backstage: How Spotify's Internal Sprawl Led to a Developer Portal
How thousands of undiscoverable microservices inside Spotify led to Backstage, the developer portal it later open sourced through the CNCF.
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Why Spotify Left Its Own Data Centers for Google Cloud
How Spotify moved a music streaming service serving hundreds of millions of users off self-managed data centers and onto Google Cloud without a big-bang cutover.
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The Data Pipeline Behind Spotify's Discover Weekly
How Spotify combines collaborative filtering, text analysis, and audio features in a weekly batch pipeline to power Discover Weekly for every user.
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Squads, Tribes, and Chapters: Spotify's Org Model and Its Trade-offs
Why Spotify organized engineering around autonomous squads instead of functional teams, and what the model got right and wrong as the company scaled.
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