NerdOut@Spotify
by Spotify R&D
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37: Dev Mode: Dividing Work & Delivering Context
37: Dev Mode: Dividing Work & Delivering Context
About this podcast
NerdOut@Spotify is a technology podcast produced by the nerds at Spotify and made for the nerd inside all of us. Hear from Spotify engineers about challenging tech problems and get a firsthand look into what we're doing, what we're building, and what we’re nerding out about at Spotify every day.
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- 37: Dev Mode: Dividing Work & Delivering Context · 24 min · Episode 37Welcome to Dev Mode, where we show you how Spotify builds, with live demos on our own repos and PRs. No slides. Just the workflows we actually use on real Spotify problems, plus…
- 36: How the BBC Experiments at Scale: Learning Since 1922 · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 36How do you build a culture of experimentation inside a 100-year-old institution? This episode is part of our special miniseries on product experimentation where we go beyond A/B…
- 35: How Huel Experiments at Scale: Beyond A/B Tests · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 35What happens when a seven-person data team restarts an experimentation program from scratch — and gets the whole company running experiments within months? Welcome to the first…
- 34: Redesigning our Apple TV App *Release Notes* · 21 min · Season 1 Episode 34What does it take to ship a video-first Spotify experience on the biggest screen in your house? In this Release Notes episode of the NerdOut@Spotify podcast, you’ll hear about…
- 33: Ship Happens (When Agents Code) · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 33At Spotify, we're doubling down on background coding agents. The goal is to scale code migrations and boost developer productivity beyond our existing automation system. Built on…
- 32: ARM-ing Ourselves with Google Axion, Part 2 · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 32In part two of ARM-ing ourselves with Google Axion, Dave is joined by Max Charas, a senior staff engineer at Spotify who’s been leading much of the migration work on our Google…
- 31: ARM-ing Ourselves with Google Axion, Part 1 · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 31Spotify is in the middle of a big shift in modern computing: moving from x86 processors to Google’s new ARM-based Axion chips. This isn’t just a hardware swap — it’s a disruptive…
- 30: Building AiKA: Spotify’s AI Knowledge Assistant · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 30Hear about the journey behind building Spotify’s AI knowledge assistant, aka AiKA — from hack projects to internal chatbot, to enterprise developer tool. While general purpose…
- 29: Deploying Our New Typeface: Spotify Mix · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 29Last year Spotify launched a big update to the app: a new typeface. For most of us, changing fonts is easy. It’s just a dropdown menu away. But creating a whole new typeface and…
- 28: The CNCF Turns 10 · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 28Ever heard of Kubernetes? Envoy? Prometheus? You probably have. But what you may not know is that these projects are managed and sustained by the Cloud Native Computing…
- Join us for Wizards, Portals, and Spotify for Backstage · 4 minRegister for Spotify’s roadmap webinar on April 30, 2024 — and see what’s coming next from Spotify for Backstage, the open source platform for building internal developer…
- 27: Measuring Developer Productivity · 32 minHost and principal engineer Dave Zolotusky talks with Kyle Buttner, a product manager on Spotify’s insights team, to discuss Spotify's journey in measuring developer productivity…
- 26: A Trillion Events · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 26How 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, that’s an event. And getting…
- 25: Voice Translation *Release Notes* · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 25We’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 product? In this Release Notes…
- 24: Tesla *Release Notes* · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 24Over the summer, Spotify helped Tesla engineers ship a major update to their built-in media player. In this Release Notes episode, host Dave Zolotusky talks with Spotify…
- 23: Searching for Neighbors with Voyager · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 23How 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 each track to every other…
- 22: Declarative Infra and Beyond · 45 min · Season 22In 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 log into your cloud…
- 21: The Man Who Killed ABBA · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 21Last episode, we talked about ABBA, our first A/B testing tool. We used it to test UI changes, new features, content recommendations — anything and everything we could think of…
- 20: The Rise and Fall of ABBA · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 20Back 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 new features to see what…
- 19: Engineering for Accessibility · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 19We’re often focused on features that improve the experience for users — letting them do something better, faster, smarter. But if you don’t consider accessibility issues, many…
