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26: A Trillion Events
Season 1 Episode 26
How did we learn to do event delivery at scale at Spotify? It’s been a journey. When you do something like tap the play button in the Spotify app, th…
2 years, 3 months ago
25: Voice Translation *Release Notes*
Season 1 Episode 25
We’ve seen generative AI and large language models do some amazing things in the past year — but how do you go from a tech demo to a real shipping pr…
2 years, 4 months ago
24: Tesla *Release Notes*
Season 1 Episode 24
Over the summer, Spotify helped Tesla engineers ship a major update to their built-in media player. In this Release Notes episode, host Dave Zolotusk…
2 years, 6 months ago
23: Searching for Neighbors with Voyager
Season 1 Episode 23
How do you get a machine to find a song that’s similar to another song? What properties of the song should it look for? And then does it just compare…
2 years, 7 months ago
22: Declarative Infra and Beyond
Season 22
In the very old days, if you needed more storage for your database, you had to walk into the data center and install another server. Now you can just…
2 years, 9 months ago
21: The Man Who Killed ABBA
Season 1 Episode 21
Last episode, we talked about ABBA, our first A/B testing tool. We used it to test UI changes, new features, content recommendations — anything and e…
2 years, 9 months ago
20: The Rise and Fall of ABBA
Season 1 Episode 20
Back in the day, Spotify built a custom A/B testing tool called ABBA. It was great. The platform enabled lots of teams to try out lots of ideas for n…
2 years, 11 months ago
19: Engineering for Accessibility
Season 1 Episode 19
We’re often focused on features that improve the experience for users — letting them do something better, faster, smarter. But if you don’t consider …
2 years, 11 months ago
18: Meet Your Personal AI DJ
Season 1 Episode 18
How do you make an AI-generated voice feel more like a real person? You give it a real personality. Spotify recently released a new feature in the US…
3 years ago
17: Building Apps at Spotify Scale
Season 1 Episode 17
What happens when the standard tooling for iOS and Android just doesn't cut it anymore? What’s it like to maintain an app when there are literally th…
3 years, 2 months ago